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"The Thrasher is a Ground Gleaner, who spends most of his time in the underbrush, having a great appetite for the wicked May beetle; but he does not live near the ground only, mounting high in a tree when he wishes to sing, as if he needed the pure high air in order to breathe well, and he never sings from the heart of a thick bush, as the Catbird does so frequently.
"Why, I don't suppose there's been no wages paid aboard that Gleaner for three trips." "No wages?" I exclaimed, for I was still a novice in maritime affairs. "Not to sailor-men before the mast," agreed the mate. "Men cleared out; wasn't the soft job they maybe took it for. She isn' the first ship that never paid wages."
Fountains of Summer, Autumn and Winter, by the same sculptor as Spring, just described, are similarly installed in their respective niches in the Court of Four Seasons. In "Summer" is represented the earth's early fruition. A young mother lifts her new-born babe for its father's kiss. A gleaner harvests the grain. Over all is a gentle solemnity.
But once upon a time three people spent a very happy night on her deck, as you shall hear. She is called The Gleaner. I think I was never so much annoyed in my life as on the day when Annie, my only servant, gave me a month's "warning." I noticed that Annie softened it to "Tubey." Of course I tried to dissuade her, but my arguments were those of a wifeless man, and very weak.
A long tail that does not lie flat and smooth like that of most birds. Female: dull blackish and smaller not over twelve inches. A Citizen of the Atlantic States from Florida to Massachusetts. A good Citizen, if there are not too many in one place to eat too much grain. A Ground Gleaner and Tree Trapper, clearing grubs and beetles from ploughed land.
A Summer Citizen of the eastern United States from Kansas and the Carolina mountains to Canada, travelling south of the United States in winter. A Tree Trapper, Ground Gleaner, Weed Warrior, and Seed Sower. Rather naughty once in a while about picking tree-buds, but on the whole a good neighbor.
The sciences, are facts regarding the phenomena of the universe, classified and arranged in an orderly manner. All facts of every kind, naturally fall into the domain of some one of the sciences. Man, as the highest expression of the planet, in his three-fold nature, becomes the gleaner, the classifier, and the repository of these facts.
In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering, innumerable reapers have already put their sickles. Yet the harvest is so abundant that the negligent search of a straggling gleaner may be rewarded with a sheaf. The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations by means of which it acts on the reader.
You are my own, my own, Dweller in my endless dreams! Your feet are rosy-red with the glow of my heart's desire, Gleaner of my sunset songs! Your lips are bitter-sweet with the taste of my wine of pain. You are my own, my own, Dweller in my lonesome dreams! With the shadow of my passion have I darkened your eyes, Haunter of the depth of my gaze!
In the West India Dock Road the way became slightly more open, but when at last I alighted and entered the dock gates I recognized that every newspaper and news agency in the kingdom was apparently represented. Jones, of the Gleaner, was coming out as I went in, and: "Hello, Addison!" he cried, "this is quite in your line! It's as mad as 'Alice in Wonderland."
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