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"I remember," said Mrs. Blyth, "when my father was working at his great engraving, from Mr. Scumble's picture of the 'Fair Gleaner Surprised, that he used often to say how much harder his art was than drawing, because you couldn't rub out a false line on copper, like you could on paper.
Male: very glossy black, excepting the head and neck, which are shiny dark brown like burnt coffee. Female: dusky brown, the lower parts lighter than the upper. A Citizen of the entire United States. A Ground Gleaner and a Weed Warrior, to some extent, but a bad neighbor, a worse parent, a homeless vagabond, and an outlaw in Birdland.
Under parts whitish, all striped with dark brown, the heaviest stripes making a large blackish spot on the breast. A Citizen of the United States east of the plains, nesting from Virginia northward to the Fur Countries. A Ground Gleaner as well as a Weed Warrior, and a constant joyful songster. Chewink.
And that patient watchful Mother Grouse has as many ways of leading an enemy away from her nest as any House Mother could devise if her children were in danger. "This Grouse is a Ground Gleaner, a Seed Sower, and a Weed Warrior also in autumn. When snow covers all other food, he nips buds from low plants.
Under parts brick-red, except the black and white streaked throat and under the tail. A Citizen of the United States and Canada. A Ground Gleaner, Tree Trapper, and Seed Sower. One pleasant evening after tea, but before sunset, the Doctor sent Nat to ask Rap to come up to the Farm, as they were all going for a walk through the orchard and the river woods.
"That's the Gleaner," he replied. "I am chief officer, this gentleman's third; and we've to get in our depositions before the crew. You see they might corral us with the captain; and that's no kind of berth for me. I've sailed with some hard cases in my time, and seen pins flying like sand on a squally day but never a match to our old man.
The names of the first four degrees are respectively, for men and women, Laborer and Maid, Cultivator and Shepherdess, Harvester and Gleaner, Husbandman and Matron; and the initiations are not only exceedingly impressive and beautiful, but really instructive.
Under parts cream-yellowish, whiter on the belly, the throat and breast spotted with black. A yellowish eye-ring, like the creamy color of the breast. A Summer Citizen of the mountains of the northern United States. A Tree Trapper and Ground Gleaner.
This is throughout a very beautiful composition, but we must content ourselves with the following extract: Then comes A Farewell to the year, one of Mr. Lockhart's elegant translations from the Spanish; a pretty portrait of rustic simplicity the Little Gleaner, by the editor; and some playful lines by M.A. Shee, accompanying an engraving from his own picture of the Lost Ear-Rings.
Sometimes he would sketch in one field, sometimes in the other, but generally in the one beyond the old oak we see there, as it was more pleasant and sunny." All the Landseer men were gifted, and the mother was the beautiful woman whom Reynolds painted as a gleaner, carrying a bundle of wheat upon her head.
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