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Ever see anything prettier than a child's first step? Again, Kitty, bogh! But go to your new father this time. Aisy, now, aisy!" "Grive me a kiss first!" "One more, darling!" "Now face the other way. One two are you ready, Phil?" Phil held out his long white trembling hands. "Yes," with a smothered sob. "Three four and away!"
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MISTLETOE THRUSH. Turdus viscivorus, Linnaeus. French, "Merle Draine," "Grive Draine." I quite agree with the remarks made by Professor Newton, in his edition of 'Yarrell, as to the proper English name of the present species, and that it ought to be called the Mistletoe Thrush.
French, "Grive," "Merle Grive." Very common and resident in all the Islands, and great is the destruction of snails by Thrushes and Blackbirds in fact, nowhere have I seen such destruction as in the Channel Islands, especially in Guernsey and Herm, where every available stone seems made use of, and to considerable purpose, to judge from the number of snail-shells to be found about; and yet the gardeners complain quite as much of damage to their gardens, especially in the fruit season, by Blackbirds and Thrushes, as the English gardeners and seem equally unready to give these birds any credit for the immense destruction of snails, which, if left alone, would scarcely have left a green thing in the garden.
But here, with this little glancing creature, he felt himself plunged in a perfect quagmire of ignorance and stupidity. When he spoke of being half French, she became suddenly grave, and studied him with an intent piercing look. 'No, she said slowly, 'no, at bottom you are not French a bit, you are all English, I feel it. I should fight you a outrance! Grive what a strange name!
To my grive astonishment I be'eld my eminent friend suspended in mid-air and clinging to one of these pieces of masonry, his appearance and attitude indicatin' that he suffered from the grivest apprehensions.
I ain't a clever chap like you; but I ain't a born natural, Michael Moon, and when there's an elephant on my doorstep I don't listen to no explanations. `It's got a trunk, I says. `My trunk, you says: `I'm fond of travellin', and a change does me good. `But the blasted thing's got tusks, I says. `Don't look a gift 'orse in the mouth, you says, `but thank the goodness and the graice that on your birth 'as smiled. `But it's nearly as big as the 'ouse, I says. `That's the bloomin' perspective, you says, `and the sacred magic of distance. `Why, the elephant's trumpetin' like the Day of Judgement, I says. `That's your own conscience a-talking to you, Moses Gould, you says in a grive and tender voice.
The local name of the Thrush is "Mauvis." It is, of course, included in Professor Ansted's list, but with the Fieldfare, Redwing, and Blackbird, marked as only occurring in Guernsey and Sark. All these birds, however, are equally common in Alderney, Herm, and Jethou. There is also a specimen of each in the Museum. REDWING. Turdus iliacus, Linnaeus. French, "Grive mauvis," "Merle mauvis."
A regular and numerous winter visitant to all the Islands, arriving about the end of October, and those that are not shot and brought into the market departing again in March and April. FIELDFARE. Turdus pilaris, Linnaeus. French, "Grive litorne," "Merle litorne." Like the Redwing, the Fieldfare is a regular and numerous winter visitant, and arrives and departs about the same time.
V'la le picbois et la grive see the woodpecker and the robin eating the cherries, eating every one of them, and that girl running off somewhere instead of staying here and picking them," she railed in answer to the young man's polite inquiry. "I haven't seen her these four hours, neither her nor that rascally hunchback, Jean. They're up to some mischief, I'll be bound!"
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