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Updated: June 15, 2025
An occasional shower patters on the dry leaves, but it does not silence the robin on the outskirts of the wood: indeed, he sings louder than ever, though the song-sparrow and the bluebird are silent. Then comes the sweetness of the nights in latter April.
She opened her eyes and looked up from her nest of cushions to see him standing above her. "What is it?" she asked frigidly. "I grieve to waken you, madam, but there is a heavy squall coming up." She sat up and looked about her. The Bluebird had left the inlet and was rising and falling with the long oily swell of the vast sheet of water that stretched before them to a horizon of vivid blue.
"One of our college professors has said: 'There is only one thing worse than a bad habit and that's a good habit. It is true. No man can be a well-rounded and perfectly poised man, if he is hampered by habits of any kind. Habits narrow the mind and contract one's usefulness in the world " "Oh, Nelson!" excitedly interrupted Janice. "See the bluebird! The first I have seen this Spring.
The quahaug boats were anchored just inside the Point; a clam digger was wading along the outer edge of the sedge; a lobsterman was hauling his pots in the channel; even the bluebird on the wild cherry stump had a straw in his beak and was plainly in the midst of nest building. Everyone had something to do and was doing it everyone except Lute Rogers and myself, the "birds of a feather."
But the bluebird is not strictly a songster in the sense in which the song sparrow or the indigo-bird, or the English robin redbreast, is; nor do Bryant's lines hit the mark: "The bluebird chants, from the elm's long branches, A hymn to welcome the budding year." Lowell, again, is nearer the truth when he speaks of his "whiff of song."
Leary nodded and gave a hitch to his trousers. "You found the waters of Champlain tranquil, and no hawks followed the landward passage?" "The robin and the bluebird sang over all the road," he answered; then with a glance at Archie: "You gave no warning of the second pilgrim." "The brother is young and innocent, but I find him an apt pupil," the Governor explained.
"I laid out to tell more, soon ez my tongue got rested." "Rest it then, and go on," said Dimple, settling back against a chair, with her hands behind her head. "Well," said Bubbles, going on with her story, "the wass he flown off, and the bluebird he flown off, and after a while the bluebird he met a squirl. 'Howdy? says he. 'Howdy, says the squirl. 'How's all to yo' house?
Who, indeed, except those prosaic beings who are blind and deaf to the most precious things in life? "I heard a bluebird this morning!" one exclaimed exultantly, so stirred as to forget momentarily her hearer's incapacity for enthusiasm.
They were what he fully expected to behold as soon as the southeaster ceased to whip the Gulf, the Bluebird and the Blackbird, Jack MacRae's two salmon carriers. They were walking up to Squitty in eight-knot boots.
Like all houses in Elmbrook, Miss Arabella's front door looked out upon the narrow confines of the village street, with its double row of elms and maples; but her back door commanded a view of a whole world of sky and field and wood. High up in an apple-tree of the Sawyers' orchard a bluebird was caroling joyously.
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