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Updated: June 3, 2025
First heard as a bird-call, and nothing more, by degrees it grew more and more laugh-like a long, far-reaching, ringing laugh; not the laugh I should like to hear from any person I take an interest in, but a laugh with all the gladness, unction, and humanity gone out of it a dry mechanical sound, as if a soulless, lifeless, wind-instrument had laughed. It was very curious.
The last, though laugh-like in itself, is anything but provocative of mirth in those who listen to it, knowing that it is a sound peculiar to the loneliest, gloomiest recesses of the forests. After toiling up the steep acclivity for nearly two hours, they arrive at a point where the tall timber abruptly ends.
At length a large owl, flapping down close to my head, gave utterance to a long hiss, followed by a sharp, clicking sound, ending with a sudden loud, laugh-like cry. The nearness of it startled me, and, looking up, I saw a twinkling yellow light gleam for a moment across the wide, black plain, then disappear.
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