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A pair of redbirds came and went flashes of scarlet against the whiteness of a blossoming dogwood-tree. Far away the squalling of a catbird mingled with the mellow cadences of the mountain stream. There was the sound of laughter, too, and the chatter of gay voices in the distance, where the young people fished from the banks. Judy could just see them through an opening in the pines.
Flower and leaf resemble those of the dogwood-tree, to which family the bunchberry belongs. =Partridgeberry= Another ground berry is the partridgeberry. This may be eaten but is dry and rather tasteless. It is a red berry and grows on a slender, trailing vine. Its leaves are small and heart-shaped; some are veined with white. They are evergreen.
But it seemeth to me that thou art different from other maids. They do not care to rise from their sleeping mats and go forth alone into the forest." "Perhaps they have not an arrow inside of them as have I." Nautauquas had seated himself in the crotch of a dogwood-tree and looked with interest at his sister below him. "An arrow?" he queried; "what dost thou mean?"
My eyes being attracted by a little commotion on a dogwood-tree, I saw a saucy tufted titmouse chasing with cries one of the wrens who had food in its beak. With most birds this proclaims the arrival of the young family as plainly as if a banner had been hung on the castle walls.
In the woods he felt that curious thrill of stealth, that impulse to cautious concealment, which survives in man from the remote days when enemies beset his forest ways. On a southern hillside he found a dogwood-tree with its blossomed firmament of white stars. In low, moist places the violets had sprung through the thatch of leaves and were singing their purple beauties all unheard.
They name the Months very agreeably, as one is the Herring-Month, another the Strawberry-Month, another the Mulberry-Month. Others name them by the Trees that blossom; especially, the Dogwood-Tree; or they say, we will return when Turkey-Cocks gobble, that is in March and April. The Age of the Moon they understand, but know no different Name for Sun and Moon.
I resolved to be quiet, though patient I could not be. My peril was too great. Physically I obeyed him. I sat down upon a log that same log of the liriodendron and under the shade of a spreading dogwood-tree. With all the patience I could command, I sat awaiting the orders of the snake-doctor. He had gone off a little way, and was now wandering around the glade with eyes bent upon the ground.
"Don't!" she said, and her lips were smiling, though her eyes were full of tears. "We have forgot that it is May Day, and that we must be light of heart. Look how white is that dogwood-tree! Break me a bough for my chimney-piece at Williamsburgh." He brought her a branch of the starry blossoms. "Did you notice," she asked, "that the girl who ran Audrey wore dogwood in her hair?
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