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All my fears were rebuked, and it is the burden of my prayers from day to day, that I may have a thankful heart." "And how did Sandy like Merleville, and all the people?" "Oh, he liked them well, you may be sure. It would have been very ungrateful if he had not, they made so much of him Mr and Mrs Greenleaf, especially, and the Merles, and plenty besides.
The pouches, two feet long and more, swayed in the breeze, fastened to the end of the boughs with a few threads. Each had, about half-way down, an opening into the round sac below, in and out of which the Merles crept and fluttered, talking all the while in twenty different notes.
We will come and sing to you all night long, since you like it; and when we go to bed at dawn, I will tell my cousins, the thrushes and merles, to take our places, so that you shall hear somebody singing near you all the day long." Lampblack was silent. His heart was too full to speak. Was it possible that he was of use, after all? "Can it be true?" he said timidly.
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades. There were three tricolors and two mist-hued merles. Over nearly all the section's occupants a swarm of owners and handlers were just now busy with brush and cloth. For word had come that collies were to be the second breed judged that day. The first breed was to be the Great Danes.
The sun was up, and half an hour would dry all again. One object, on the edge of the forest, was worth noticing, and was watched long through the glasses; namely, two or three large trees, from which dangled a multitude of the pendant nests of the Merles: birds of the size of a jackdaw, brown and yellow, and mocking- birds, too, of no small ability.
Mountains of argument have been built on these words, deux merles, "two jail-birds." One of the two, we shall see, became the source of the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. "The rogue's whole furniture and table-linen were sold for 1l. 19s. He only got a new suit of clothes every three years."
We walked through the avenues of great cypress trees and came to the farther end of the pools whose curbs were decorated with flowering urns. There we looked at the palace and listened to the song of the merles. Beside this all was silence, only the stir of the wind against the soft strings of the trees the most melodious harp in the world!
Most tropic birds hide their nests carefully in the bush: the Merles hang theirs fearlessly in the most exposed situations. So thinks M. Leotaud, the accomplished describer of the birds of Trinidad.
We climbed to an eminence, stood by an iron fence and gazed down upon the fisheries surrounded by graceful bushes and trees. Then we found the Fontana dell' Ovato, and a seat before it. It was a semicircle of stone perforated by arches over which the water musically poured. Here we rested, listening to the merles, the falling water, the whispering of the wind.
And all around the place that child of the grape, the vine, doth flourish with its tendrils, and the merles in spring with their sweet songs utter their wood-notes wild, and the brown nightingales reply with their complaints, pouring from their bills the honey-sweet song.
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