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Updated: May 14, 2025
Then he sat down and read the racing news. There was no danger of anyone seeing him, for the place was entirely solitary with the double loneliness of hill and woodland. There were no children in the batch except Martha's friend's little boy, and he was timid and never went bird's-nesting.
"The Holy Office!" cried a Banbury man. "I had a cousin, sirs, an honest fellow, with whom I had gone bird's-nesting when we were boys together! He was master of a merchantman the Red Lion that by foul treachery was taken by the Spaniards at Cales.
I had given them some extraordinary proof of my love for my father. The impression I received was, that sitting was the thing to conjure him to me. 'Where his heart's not concerned, Mrs. Waddy remarked of me flatteringly, 'he's shrewd as a little schoolmaster. 'He've a bird's-nesting eye, said Mrs. Thresher, whose face I was studying.
Peggotty meant to say, bird's-nesting 'this morning, 'tis along of me as you're a-going to quit us? 'You have something to say, my good friend, returned my aunt, 'and will do better without me. 'By your leave, ma'am, returned Mr. Peggotty, 'I should take it kind, pervising you doen't mind my clicketten, if you'd bide heer. 'Would you? said my aunt, with short good-nature.
But I was not allowed to leave them that day; and, while we talked over our mate, Candelaria deftly repaired the tell-tale cuts in my poncho. I spent the afternoon making friends with the children, who proved to be very intelligent and amusing little beggars, telling them some nonsensical stories I invented, and listening to their bird's-nesting, armadillo-chasing, and other adventures.
A writer might have won fame throughout the civilized globe for his trappers and his realistic backwoods, and all went for nothing. If his pemmican were not properly compounded I damned his achievement, and it was heard no more of. Harold was hardly old enough to possess a special subject of his own. He had his instincts, indeed, and at bird's-nesting they almost amounted to prophecy.
She really had found a safety-valve; the boys were entertained, and diverted from their attack on their favourite victim, by finding everyone an appropriate bird; and when they came to "Tomtits" and "Dishwashers," were so astonished at Miss Fosbrook's never having seen either, that they instantly fell into the greatest haste to finish their tea, and conduct her into the garden, and through a course of birds, eggs, and nests, about which, as soon as she was assured that there was to be no bird's-nesting, she was very eager.
He met two small boys out bird's-nesting: he gave them a shilling apiece, and then inconsistently informed them that if he caught them then or at any other time with a bird's nest in their hands he would cuff their ears. Then he walked hastily home, put by his fishing-rod, and shut himself up in his study with half a dozen of those learned volumes which he had brought back unsoiled from school.
Her sweetheart laughingly called her an impudent urchin. In reality he much admired her pluck. He watched her jump over the wall with the complacency of an older brother supervising the exercises of a younger one. Indeed, there was yet much that was childlike in their growing love. On several occasions they spoke of going on some bird's-nesting expedition on the banks of the Viorne.
Mr Hooker told us that the trade in birds' nests employs a large amount of capital and men. However, the loss of life arising from accidents and exposure is very great. It has been asserted that, on an average, two out of every five men employed in bird's-nesting meet with a violent death. In China a "catty" or one pound and a quarter English, of the best nests, sells at about 9 pounds sterling.
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