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Updated: May 21, 2025
The whole party were in excellent spirits, and as happy as the birds that filled the woods, and whose cheery "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" was heard whenever they paused to rest, and let the hatchet be still. "How one sees everything in the colour of one's own spectacles!" said Fleda. "May I ask what colour yours are to-day?" said Mr. Olmney. "Rose, I think," said Hugh.
He shivered as the cold wind sweeping the curves of the river struck him; but when an unusually heavy gust dropped the ice and snow from a branch above him on the back of his head, he laughed, as he ducked and cried: "Kape your snowballing till the Fourth of July, will you!" "Chick-a-dee-dee-dee!" remarked a tiny gray bird on the tree above him. Jimmy glanced up.
But the bowls of new milk remained untouched. They felt too sad to eat, for Fanny could hear the low plaint of the bird, in the room above; and still louder sounded in Frank's memory, the sad, "chick-a-dee-dee-dee," of the mourning mother. "Why do you not eat your supper, children?" inquired their grandmother, kindly.
Olmney took turns in the labour of hewing out the fat pine knots and splitting down the old stumps to get at the pitchy heart of the wood; and the baskets began to grow heavy. The whole party were in excellent spirits, and as happy as the birds that filled the woods and whose cheery "chick-a-dee-dee-dee," was heard whenever they paused to rest and let the hatchet be still.
When I took it away, one of them flow close around my head, and when I ran on to get away from it, I hit my foot against a stone, and stumbled down, and I am afraid I hurt the bird. All the way across the meadow, I could hear the old birds crying so sorrowfully, "chick-a-dee-dee-dee," and it made my heart ache so, that I should have carried it back, if it had not been for you."
They frequent the road through the timber and have some of the habits of the English sparrow. The winter woods would miss them. Chickadees were busy in the birches. Surely the chickadee is one of the dearest little fellows that fly. He has four modes of expression: 1. The well-known "Chick-a-dee-dee-dee."
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