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It just hit in Woodpecker Canyon, same as one hit Hanaupah last week and another one washed out down below. They're falling every day, but I'm going up into them hills, and do you reckon one will drop on me? Don't you think it God Almighty has got more important business than following me around through the hills.
I stood for a while beside the pool, with a woodpecker laughing in the holt, to watch the long roofs and huddled chimneys rise above the white-flowered orchard.
It is a bird of passage, and only visits Media in the autumn, preparatory to retreating into the warm district of Mazandoran for the winter months. The woodpecker is found in Zagros, and is a beautiful bird, red and gray in color. Media is, on the whole, but scantily provided with fish.
"Yes!" replied Reddy. "But it's none too big. In fact, there are too many people in this neighborhood that come here for nuts. I hope," he said, "that's not what you're looking for." Jimmy Rabbit laughed. "Certainly not!" he said. "I'm satisfied to leave the nuts for you and Jasper Jay to eat. I want none of them." "Jasper Jay!" screamed Reddy Woodpecker.
He had not yet heard of the battle, or rather double battle that morning, nor did he know which way Kapchack had gone, but he considered that most probably the woodpecker could tell him, and therefore flew direct towards the copse to inquire.
Then Drummer the Woodpecker began such a furious rat-a-tat-tat-tat on the trunk of the old tree that it rang through the Green Forest and out across the Green Meadows almost to the Purple Hills. Down at the foot of the tree a freckled face on which there was a black scowl looked up. It was the face of Farmer Brown's boy. "What ails that pesky woodpecker?" he muttered.
Among the birds, Professor Hind mentions prairie-hens, plovers, various ducks, loons, and other aquatic birds, besides the partridge, quail, whip-poor-will, hairy woodpecker, Canadian jay, blue jay, Indian hen, and woodcock. In the mountain region are bighorns and mountain goats; the grizzly bear often descends from his rugged heights into the plains, and affords sport to the daring hunter.
Chickadee, "for, indeed, I want you all to help. How many remember Thistle Goldfinch the happy little fellow who floated over the meadows through the summer and fall?" "Cheerup, chee-chee, cheerup, chee-chee, I do," sang the Robin; "how he loved to sway on thistletops!" "Yes," said Downy Woodpecker, "and didn't he sing?
Then Jimmy Rabbit led him silently to a great cedar tree and bade him stand behind it and keep perfectly still. Reddy made a wry face when he saw that he must put his feet in a deep puddle of water. But he obeyed, all the same. THE moment Reddy Woodpecker stepped into the cold water he wanted to say "Ouch!" But Jimmy Rabbit put a finger on his mouth meaning that Reddy must be still as a mouse.
At dawn the next morning they prepared to pass through the forest; the prince saddled and bridled the horse, drew the girths tighter than usual, and mounted. Suddenly he heard a tremendous crashing. "Make ready, master," said the horse, "the Woodpecker Fairy is coming."
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