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He thought it very likely, and he wanted to see them but movement was repulsive to his bulging body. He sighed and closed his eyes. A shrill whistle attempting the national anthem, with certain liberties of variation, caused him to open them again, and he saw, passing him, a small boy, apparently without an object in life. "A-hum!" said Scattergood. The boy stopped and looked inquiringly.
Two goldfinches sat on the cross of a larch-fir and sang, looking towards the west, where the light lingered. High up, the larch-fir boughs with the top shoot form a cross; on this one goldfinch sat, the other was immediately beneath. At even the birds often turn to the west as they sing. Next morning the August sun shone, and the wood was all a-hum with insects.
A shout went up from the boys who had heard the sally. For nearly a week the school grounds were a-hum with voices. Then things began to settle down into the regular yearly routine. In spite of the stiff program ahead Van managed to spend some part of each day, if only a few moments of it, with Tim McGrew. How much there was to tell!
"Yes, a thick one," said Anne, "but the sun's coming through. Listen to the birds. Did you ever hear anything like them?" "I was out collecting the eggs at five o'clock this morning," returned Mary, "and I think I never heard them so busy. The earth was all a-hum with them. They seemed as though they must be listened to, whatever happened." Both women stood listening.
"There was green on the earth and blue in the sky, The chrysalis changed to a butterfly, And our lovers, the honey-bees, all a-hum, To hunt for our hearts began to come." When he came to a village with an electric car clanging through it, he skirted its borders, and struck off through a woodland toward the river. Even the village was too human, too modern, for his early-pagan mood.
'Sweets to the sweet! hum a-ha haw! says Sir John Hawbuck, who piques himself on his gallantry, and says nothing without 'a-hum a-ha a-haw! 'Whereth yaw pinnafaw? cries Master Hugh. 'WE thaw you in it, over the wall, didn't we, Pa? 'Hum a-ha a-haw! burst out Sir John, dreadfully alarmed. 'Where's Ponto? Why wasn't he at Quarter Sessions? How are his birds this year, Mrs.
Come, stray into my heart, you tender little feet, and leave the everlasting print of songs on my dreamland path. I am like the night to you, little flower. I can only give you peace and a wakeful silence hidden in the dark. When in the morning you open your eyes, I shall leave you to a world a-hum with bees, and songful with birds.
Ponto have those Carabas pheasants done any harm to your wheat? a-hum a-ha a-haw! and all this while he was making the most ferocious and desperate signals to his youthful heir.
'I've no head on my shoulders, she told the cook, who was helping her to pack Yasha's things; 'no head at all, but a hive full of bees all a-buzz and a-hum!
'Too late, I fear me, to wait upon Lord Livelyston to-night? she suggested. 'To-night? The Hon. Melville gazed blank astonishment at the notion. 'Oh! certainly, too late tonight. A-hum! I think, madam, you had better not be in too great a hurry to see him. Repose a little. Recover your fatigue.
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