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Updated: May 10, 2025
I wondered that he had so little to say in conversation, for he had kept the best company, and learnt all that can be got by the ear. He abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing. I told him that when the ancients made a simile, they always made it like something real. Mr.
Why should I? I didn't fall." Linnet brought the pillow and comforter, and then ran out through the back yard calling, "Father! Father!" Down the road Hollis heard the agonized cry, and turning hastened back to the house. "Oh, go for the doctor quick!" cried Linnet, catching him by the arm; "something dreadful has happened to Marjorie, and she doesn't know what it is."
"Would," said he, "that I might teach them the divine science as I would wish; but the master would not allow me; indeed, he would dismiss me if I attempted to do so." "I do not understand you." "Let me explain to you. You know that there are certain old women who, for a consideration, will train a linnet or a bullfinch to whistle any air?"
"Do I? Isn't that selfish? But I don't know how to help any one else, not even Linnet." "Making the best of ourselves is the foundation for making something out of others." "But I didn't say that" persisted Marjorie. "You help people to do it for themselves." "I wonder if that is my work in the world," rejoined Miss Prudence, musingly.
A glance up at the blue sky starlight over the houses of this great city, when I look out at the night from my garret window a child's voice coming suddenly, I don't know where from the piping of my neighbor's linnet in his little cage now one trifling thing, now another wakes up that want in me in a moment.
She is going to be the rage. She has never played before, but she sings like a lark, like a linnet, like a nightingale; and she walks the boards as naturally as if she had been born upon them. She is English too, in spite of her foreign name. Why on earth do professional English people take foreign names? 'I don't know, I'm sure, said Christopher wearily. 'I should like to go to sleep.
For answer let us take the testimony of two reliable witnesses, and file it for use on the day when Tony Macchewin, gun in hand and pockets bulging with cartridges, goes afield in our country and opens fire on our birds. The linnet is one of the sweet singers of Europe. It is a small, delicately formed, weak-winged little bird, about the size of our phoebe-bird.
"But Jan's father caught one," he objected, "in a pool just inside Piper's Hole, where she was left by the tide. He has told us about her, dozens of times. And besides," he added, getting in a home-thrust, "if there isn't any such thing, why were you crying over the story, just now?" "I wasn't," contended Linnet, very red in the face. But she shifted her ground.
"I asked him if he would be as good to my wife," answered Hollis, "and he said he would, if I would please him as well as Will had done." "There's only one Linnet," said Marjorie. "But bride's have sisters," said Morris. "Marjorie, where shall I put all this jelly? And I haven't missed one plate with a bouquet, have I? Now count everybody up again and see if we are all right."
As he went down the glen, into its softer sweeps, this increased, as did the song of birds. The primrose was strewn about in disks of pale gold, the white thorn lifted great bouquets, the bluebell touched the heart. A lark sang in the sky, linnet and cuckoo at hand, in the wood at the top of the glen cooed the doves.
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