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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Stroke, you're late," said Thomas, butting me violently in the back with his oar. "My dear Thomas, when you have been in the Admiralty a little longer you will know that 'bow' is not the gentleman who sets the time. What do you suppose would happen at Queen's Hall if the second bird-call said to the conductor, 'Henry, you're late'?"
The child was abducted by the man who occupied this house, and who appears to have watched him from an upper window, probably through a glass. This man lured the child into the wood by blowing this bird-call; he met him in the wood, and induced him by some promises, no doubt to come with him.
For this is the night of the flowering of the brake, that beareth a blue flower on the stroke of midnight. But it is withered afore morning. Come you again about the time of the first bird-call. If aught is in the smock, take it; it is the dust of the flower. Sleep above it, and he you dream of is your lover. This is a sure charm, and cannot be broke.
They picked up their rifles, twitched their bow up on land, and turned their faces to the forest. "Stay here," was Pedro's subdued command, "until you hear the bird-call which we taught you down the river." He and Lourenço faded into the dimness and were gone. "Beats me how them guys find their way 'round," muttered Tim.
The demon Charon, beckoning to them with eyes like brasiers, collected them as they came, giving blows to those that lingered, with his oar. One by one they dropped into the boat like leaves from a bough in autumn, till the bough is left bare; or as birds drop into the decoy at the sound of the bird-call.
While they stood there a light flashed for an instant in a little gully off to the right, and Nestor replied with a bird-call which was so natural that Shaw gave a little start and looked about for the bird. There was another flash of light, and then five men made their appearance. There was a further exchange of signals, and then the newcomers advanced to where the boys stood.
Everybody rocks when I rock, and Don't you rock so hard." Third Soloist "You may laugh at the beaver, But he's always up to time." Chorus "Don't you rock so hard!" Fourth Soloist "Oh, do drop the beaver, And start a new rhyme." Chorus as before A song like this may go on indefinitely or until the rhyming powers of the party are exhausted. =Bird-Call Match=
The vision of all that noise and glitter deepened the sweetness of the woodland hush. He sighed again. Suddenly voices sounded in the road below a man's speech flecked with girlish laughter. Odo hung back listening: the girl's voice rang like a bird-call through his rustling fancies.
This is excellent training in woodcraft as well as a fascinating game. Your ears will be quickened to hear and to identify the bird calls by playing it; and storing bird notes in your memory for use in the next bird-call match will become a habit. =Vary the Game= You can vary this game by giving the calls of wild animals and the characteristic noises they make when frightened or angry.
"Such self-conceit and Heaven knows we have the root of it in ourselves also is the very daughter of self-will, and of that loud crying out about I, and me, and mine, which is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad road which leads to death."
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