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But when he had uttered his message he sank back into the grass, and I tore myself away from the bobolink meadow, and came home far richer and far happier than when I set out. My acquaintance with the bobolink was resumed a year later in the lovely summer home of a friend in the Black River Country, within sight of the Adirondack hills.
But if he must choose between Benjamin Bat and Bobby Bobolink for a neighbor, of the two the Hermit preferred Benjamin Bat, because Benjamin was always asleep in the daytime, while at night he never disturbed the Hermit's rest. "I've come to ask a favor of you," Mr. Hermit Thrush explained. "Perhaps you don't know there's a noisy nuisance hereabouts who calls himself Bobby Bobolink?"
They were not three feet behind the man who labored. A single plunge forward must send them full upon his back. Some thought of his companion possibly crossed the mind of Wash just then; for he suddenly turned his head. Of course he could not help but see what was behind him. "Now!" whooped Bobolink and William in a breath. There was a simultaneous movement on the part of the five lads.
"Last year methinks the bobolinks Filled the low fields with vagrant tune, The sweetest songs of sweetest June Wild spurts of frolic, always gladly Bubbling, doubling, brightly troubling, Bubbling rapturously, madly." Expressing himself was so great a relief to my bobolink, after his unnatural gravity of demeanor, that he repeated the performance again and again.
She glanced up again at the bobolink, who had ceased his song; she nodded to him once as if for a challenge, and then, still leaning back upon the breeze, and keeping time with the flower in her hand, she broke out into a happy song: "I heard a streamlet gushing From out its rocky bed, Far down the valley rushing, So fresh and clear it sped."
The former grows up and during the fall and winter forms one of the covey which is content to wander a mile or two, here and there, in search of good feeding grounds. Hardly has the bobolink donned his first full dress before an irresistible impulse seizes him.
Sometimes she drove about with him on his calls, or amused herself by making jellies in fancy moulds for his poor, or sat in his lap and discoursed like a bobolink of croup and measles, pulling his whiskers the while with her pink fingers. All this, as I have said, was before the first baby came.
1 Paul Morrison, patrol leader, and also assistant scout master. 2 Jack Stormways. 3 Bobolink, the official bugler. 4 Bluff Shipley, the drummer. 5 Nuthin, whose real name was Albert Cypher. 6 William Carberry, one of the twins. 7 Wallace Carberry, the other. 8 Tom Betts.
He wouldn't have a good time, because all the while he'd be thinking of what was coming when he got back." "Bobolink is rubbing his chin every time he looks at that little garden pump," Jack went on, chuckling mightily, as though he enjoyed watching the faces of his comrades, and reading all sorts of things there. "He just can't see why you wouldn't let him carry it along.
That's all," remarked Paul, with a little nervous laugh, and a clinching of his hands. "Good gracious! you don't say; three of them waiting to pounce on you! Did he seem to know who they were?" asked Jack, looking worried. "Well, you might guess that easy enough," replied Paul, scornfully. "Ted Slavin and some of his ugly ducklings?" "Bobolink says he recognized Ted's voice.
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