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He's a hard nut to crack. You may depend on that." "And therefore strong measures may be necessary." "Whom do you want to bring here to look at my stuff?" "Two or three officials from Scotland Yard." Garstin uttered the thrush's song through half-closed lips. "That's it! Well, you can bring them along whenever you like." "Thank you.
"It is your mother's immaturity that makes you seem so " I thought it kind to hesitate for the word, but Miss Lansdale said, again confidently: "Oh, but I really am," and this with a finality that seemed to close the incident. Her voice had the warm little roughness of a thrush's, which sings through a throat that is loosely strung with wires of soft gold.
But I had seen the tawny-thrush baby, and I was happy. And it's no common thing to do, either. Does not Emerson count it among Thoreau's remarkable feats that "All her shows did Nature yield To please and win this pilgrim wise; He found the tawny thrush's brood, And the shy hawk did wait for him"?
I loved the robin best of all. His song was not so beautiful as the blackbird's or so mellow as the thrush's; but they hid and ran away from me, whilst the robin sought me out and stayed with me and sang me, all to myself, a little, tiny, gentle song of which I never grew tired.
The girl wiped her hands, crossed her feet on the little island of carpet where she was stranded in a sea of soap-suds, and then, sure enough, out of her slender throat came the swallow's twitter, the robin's whistle, the blue-jay's call, the thrush's song, the wood-dove's coo, and many another familiar note, all ending as before with the musical ecstacy of a bobolink singing and swinging among the meadow grass on a bright June day.
I spoke to her, and the blessed little creature answered me in a voice of such heavenly sweetness, with that reedy thrill in it which you have heard in the thrush's even-song, that I hear it at this moment, while I am writing, so many, many years afterwards. C'est tout comme un serin, said the French student at my side.
It was the most innocent diversion in which she could hope to see them indulge. She only desired that it might last them past a thrush's nest, in the hedge between the park and plantation, a somewhat treasured discovery of Grace's. No such good luck. Either the thrush's imprudence or Grace's visits had made the nest dangerously visible, and it was proclaimed with a shout.
If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, and they say that at night there are also drowned stars in it. If so, Peter Pan sees them when he is sailing across the lake in the Thrush's Nest.
The thrush's heart gave a great jump, and seemed threatening to choke him, for that shape and it howled at him suddenly, in a voice calculated to make strong men jump was death of the night, otherwise a short-eared owl.
If birds have not some appreciation of sweet sounds, then we must consider the many different songs as mere by-products, excess of vitality which expresses itself in results, in many cases, strangely æsthetic and harmonious. A view midway is indefinable as regards the boundaries covered by each theory. How much of the peacock's train or of the thrush's song is appreciated by the female?
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