cockyoly

Updated: June 29, 2025

"They will give you colour, too, before seven years are over and that is more than I can do, or any one else. No; I yield to the new dynasty. The artist's occupation is gone henceforth, and the painter's studio, like 'all charms, must fly, at the mere touch of cold philosophy. So Major Campbell prepares the charming little cockyoly birds, and I call in the sun to immortalise them."

Charles Kingsley - Two Years Ago, Volume II.