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Updated: May 21, 2025
The first work a boy does is to go out with a clapper, or his own strong voice, to scare birds from the corn all day; this we call bird-keeping, but the lads themselves, with an appreciation of the other side of the case, call it bird-starving. Forage is often used in a general sense of food, or in the more particular sense of green food, as clover, or vetches.
"Are you one of Dan Reynolds's boys, or Tim's?" proceeded "No, I bides with granny." Julius made no further attempt at disentangling the pedigree but inquired about his employments. Did he go to school? "When there ain't nothing to be done." "And what can be done by such a mite?" asked Rosamond. "Tell the lady," said the Rector; "what work can you do?" "Bird-starving." "Well!"
And so you don't look forward to the time when we are to have our hay made by one machine, our sheep washed by another, our turkeys crammed by a third ay, and even the trouble of bird-starving saved us?" "Bird-starving!" repeated Henrietta. "Yes; or keeping a few birds, according to the mother's elegant diminutive," said Beatrice, "serving as live scarecrows."
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