marsh-bird

Updated: May 23, 2025

She leaned back laughing against a tree-trunk, pelting Cicely with witch-hazel pods, making the terrier waltz for scraps of ginger-bread, and breaking off now and then to imitate, with her clear full notes, the call of some hidden marsh-bird, or the scolding chatter of a squirrel in the scrub-oaks. "Is that what you'd like most about the journey looking down the chimneys?"

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree