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Updated: May 10, 2025
HEIGH-HO! well, I am at home again at last. I wonder if I am the same innocent little Linnet that left these bowers only three months ago. What have I seen, where have I been? or rather, What have I not seen, where have I not been?
But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.
Linnet endeavored to coax me out, as it is her holiday afternoon, and Broadway will be alive with handsome dresses and handsome faces, and there are some new paintings to be seen.
"Do you know, Morris, that man has no idea how Linnet loves him?" And then the two burst into a laugh that restored them both to the perfect understanding of themselves and each other and all the world.
"What a big girl you've grown to be, Linnet," he retorted surveying her critically and admiringly. There was fun and fire and changing lights, sauciness and defiance, with a pretty little air of deference, about Linnet. She was not unlike his city girl friends; even her dress was more modern and tasteful than Marjorie's.
Still, the Blue Bird had run so many risks in his cage: the nail it was hung upon had broken, and the king suffered much in the fall; Minetta, the cat, had glowered at him with her green eyes; the attendants had forgotten his hemp-seed and his water-glass, so that he was half dying of hunger and thirst; and a monkey had plucked at his feathers through the wires as disrespectfully as if, instead of a king, he had been a linnet or a jay.
"Not as glad as I was when I saw her death in the paper yesterday." "You do write to so many people," said Marjorie. "I counted my list yesterday as I wrote on it the fifty-third name." "Oh, dear," exclaimed Linnet, who "hated" to write letters. "What do you do it for?" "Perhaps because they need letters, perhaps because I need to write them.
The absence of all those delicious smells which make a walk through the woodlands at home so delightful, is conspicuous in the sal forests, and another of the most noticeable features is the extreme silence, the oppressive stillness that reigns. You know how full of melody is an English wood, when thrush, blackbird, mavis, linnet, and a thousand warblers flit from tree to tree.
"Why do we always groan over 'Thy will be done, as though there never was anything pleasant in it?" "That's true," returned Linnet emphatically. "When Will came Saturday, I didn't rejoice and say 'It is the Lord's will, but Sunday morning I thought it was, because it was so hard! All the lovely things that happen to us are his will of course."
Sir James Yeo had the command of the English fleet upon the Lakes, and Commodore Downie, in the Confiance, of 38 guns, had the command of the British squadron upon Lake Champlain, supported by Captain Pring, in the Linnet, of 16 guns; Lieutenant M'Ghee, in the Chub, of 11 guns; and Lieutenant Hix, in the Finch, of 11 guns.
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