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Updated: May 14, 2025
It was very quiet; all distant noises, the crowing of cocks, the persistent calling of robins and jays, the sound of wheels upon the road, the rumble of the trains passing the station down in the town, seemed muffled and subdued. The long, calm summer days succeeded one another in an unbroken, glimmering procession.
Not even the shrieks of the caucusing blue jays that might now be heard in the oak trees upon the lawn, where they were holding one of their excited powwows, served to destroy the illusion that a dead quiet had descended upon a spot lately racked by loud sounds.
For a time I feared that I was to be just as unlucky with regard to the jay, seeing that the owner of the extensive beech woods adjoining the village permitted his keeper to kill the most interesting birds in it kestrels and sparrowhawks, owls, jays, and magpies.
I do not, however, include in this category any cherries eaten by robins, or orioles, or jays; for they are of too small importance to consider in this court.
The little old lady came straight toward Ham. "Young man," she cried, as she shook her long, bony finger in his face, "young man, who ever gave you the right to come into this beautiful wilderness to maraud and murder and kill such beauties as them jays that God has put in these woods to be companions and friends to us lonely mountain folks?
"Of course not," he admitted, "but I don't care for the opinion of any but those capable of appreciating." "And those capable of appreciating are only those who approve," teased Adelaide. "Why drive tandem among these 'jays?" "To keep my hand in," replied he; and his adroit escape restored his good humor. "I wish I were as free from vanity as you are, Arthur, dear," said she.
Said he was trying to run a farm and go to college at the same time! Isn't it a scream? HORACE: We oughta make it more unpleasant for some of those jays. Gives the school a bad name. FUSSIE: But, listen, Horace, honest you'll just die. He said he was going to get the book this afternoon. DORIS: It'll get him all fussed up! And for nothing at all! HORACE: Too bad that class of people come here.
For an instant Josephine's hand fluttered to his own, and held it back, and the dark glow of her eyes said: "Don't kill." Here there were no big-eyed moose-birds, none of the mellow throat sounds of the brush sparrow, no harsh janglings of the gaudily coloured jays. In the timber fell the soft footpads of creatures with claw and fang, marauders and outlaws of darkness.
She sat, after he had risen, as if she wished to detain him, but when he came up to take leave she had to put her hand in his. She looked at it there, and so did he; it seemed very little and slim, about one-third the size of his palm, and it seemed to go to nothing in his grasp. "I should think," she added, "that the jays would have the best time on Class Day.
There was plenty of time to think and write, and here the better part of "Walden" and "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" were written. He had no neighbors, no pets, no domesticated animals only the squirrels on the roof, a woodchuck under the floor, the scolding blue jays in the pines overhead, the wild ducks on the pond, and the hooting owls that sat on the ridgepole at night.
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