Spring Notes from Tennessee

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 - 223 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 183 - ... persecutions of boys, who find a profit in selling the young into captivity. Their place, in the city especially, is taken by catbirds ; interesting, imitative, and in their own measure tuneful, but poor substitutes for mocking-birds. In fact, it is impossible to think of any bird as really filling that role. The brown thrush, it is true, sings quite in the mocking-bird's manner, and, to my ear, almost or quite as well ; but he possesses no gift as a mimic, and furthermore, without being exactly...
Sayfa 101 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Sayfa 35 - ... a succession of clear, sonorous dissyllables, in a fuller voice than most warblers possess, and with no flourish before or after. Like the bird's dress, it was perfect in its simplicity. I felt thankful, too, that I had waited till now to hear it. Things should be desired before they are enjoyed. It was another case of the schoolboy and his tart ; and I went home good humored. Lookout Mountain was not wholly ruined, after all. The next day found me there again, to my own surprise, for I had promised...
Sayfa 184 - ... hard, even among human beings, to find a nature less touched with urbanity. In the mocking-bird the elements are more happily mixed. Not gregarious, intolerant of rivalry, and, as far as creatures of his own kind are concerned, a stickler for elbow-room, — sharing with his brown relative in this respect, — he is at the same time a born citizen and neighbor ; as fond of gardens and door-yard trees as the thrasher is of scrublands and barberry bushes. " Man delights me," he might say, "and...
Sayfa 91 - Did you order them up, Granger?" "No," said Granger; "they started up without orders. When those fellows get started all hell can't stop them.

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