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Updated: May 4, 2025
A jay can cry, a jay can laugh, a jay can feel shame, a jay can reason and plan and discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal, a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is an ass just as well as you do maybe better. If a jay ain't human, he better take in his sign, that's all. Now I'm going to tell you a perfectly true fact about some bluejays." Baker's Bluejay Yarn
Shoo him outside when he didn't and see that he kept outside," said Laurence. "You see, the idea isn't so much to reform bluejays it's to save the other birds from them." John Flint's face was troubled. "It's all a muddle, anyhow," said he. "You can't blame the bluejay, because he was born so, and it's bluejay nature to act like that when it gets the chance.
One afternoon I heard a peculiar note, at first like the "cheepy-teet-teet" of the Pine Grosbeak, only louder and more broken, changing to the jingling of Blackbirds in spring, mixed with some Bluejay "jay-jays," and a Robin-like whistle; then I saw that it came from a Northern Shrike on the bushes just ahead of us.
Nothing but a bluejay could possibly get down to the creek below. I never saw such a jungle! So we waited for the indications that the lion was treed, but all became silent. Evening approached, we ate our supper and then sat on the hill above, sounding our horns. Their vibrant echoes rang from mountain to mountain and returned to us clear and sweet.
He wanted it all in truly Indian style, but the Trapper remarked, "Jest as well to have some tinder and a thong along when you're in the woods, but matches is handier than rubbing-sticks." Blackhawk and Bluejay returned with two pails of dirty, tepid, swampy water. "Why, that's all there is!" was their defense.
The boy from up-state saw to that. He was wily as the serpent and simple as the dove. Over the local page appeared daily: "LET'S GET TOGETHER!" After awhile we took him at his word and tried to ... and things began to happen in Appleboro. "Here," said the Butterfly Man to me, "is where the bluejay begins to get his."
He dodged, waiting for an opening gripped locked and had him on the hip, he thought, but the city boy squirmed in time, yielding instead of resisting, and both went down tight-gripped. For a minute it was doubtful. "Go it, Yan." "Give it to him, Bluejay." But Yan quickly threw out one leg, got a little purchase, and turned the city boy on his back. "Hooray for Little Beaver!" "One try more!
He seemed to be by far the most important personage of the forest, not excepting the inquisitive bluejay who rightfully cried "thief! thief!" at us from a maple near by.
It satisfied that odd sardonic twist in him to stand thus obscurely in the background and pull the strings. I think, too, that there must have been in his mind, since that morning he had watched the bluejay destroy his nest, some obscure sense of restitution. Once, in the dark, he had worked for evil. Still keeping himself hidden, it pleased him now to work for good.
The roily water kept oozing in all around, and Bluejay was scornful. "Well, I'd rather have what we got." Beaver dug on till there was a foot of dirty water in the hole.
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