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Updated: September 11, 2025
"Thou art not to blame that instead of a head thou hast a bladder," retorted Chilo. "Maybe thou wilt become a gladiator! thou wouldst look well with a net on the arena." "If I should catch thee in it, I should catch a stinking hoopoe." "And how will it be with the Christians?" asked Festus, from Liguria. "Wouldst thou not like to be a dog and bite them?" "I should not like to be thy brother."
The Hoopoe trembled and drooped his feathers humbly, but when Solomon would have crushed him in his mighty fist the bird cried, "Remember, King, that one day you also must give an account of your sins. Let me not therefore be condemned unheard." "And if I hear you, what excuse can you have to offer?" answered Solomon, frowning.
Suddenly, as the bird describes the happy careless life of his kind, Peithetairus conceives the idea of founding a new bird city between earth and heaven. The Hoopoe summons his friends to hear their opinion; as they come in he names them to the wondering Athenians. At first the Birds threaten to attack the mortals, their natural enemies. They listen, however, to Peithetairus' words of wisdom.
Would it not be better to leave her to end her life, restricted to the same innocent and lovely companionship which had been hers thus far? Here the hoopoe, startled at some movement that Balder made, abandoned his perch on his mistress's shoulder, and flew to the top of the palm-tree. Had the day when such friends would suffice her needs gone by? Yes, it was now too late.
And the Queen of the Hoopoes became very airy, and refused to speak to her own cousin and to the other birds who had once been her friends. There was a certain fowler who used to set traps for birds. He put a piece of broken mirror into his trap, and a Hoopoe spying it went in to admire herself, and was caught. The fowler looked at the shining crown upon her head and said, "What have we here!
It was very convenient for Solomon, when he was traveling, to have some one with him who was able to find water in whatsoever place he might be resting. Thus the Cock and the Hoopoe became Solomon's closest companions; but of the two the Hoopoe was his favorite. The Hoopoe is an Eastern bird and we do not see him in America.
But alas! when men found the Hoopoes all adorned with golden crowns, they pursued and slew them in great multitudes for greed of the precious metal, until the King of the Hoopoes, in heavy sorrow, hied hastily to King Solomon, and begged that the gift of the golden crowns might be rescinded, ere every Hoopoe was slain. His amazing talent.
The hoopoe appeared and said: "O lord, king of the world, incline thine ear and hearken to my words. Three months have gone by since I began to take counsel with myself and resolve upon a course of action.
The bridegroom rose to his feet; surely the bride must be ready! Was that strange old Nurse delaying her? Did she herself procrastinate? Balder was waxing impatient! The clear outcry of the hoopoe startled the calm air, and that good little messenger came fluttering in haste to the window. Bound its neck was twined a golden dandelion, Gnulemah's love-token!
Our version of how the hoopoe got his crest from King Solomon was, I grieve to say, so inaccurate that the Rector himself no sportsman as he pointed out, but a lover of accuracy wrote to us to correct it. We gave his letter good space and thanked him. 'This priest is going to be useful, said Ollyett. 'He has the impartial mind. I shall vitalise him.
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