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And then, passing his arm through mine, he continued aloud, as he set off towards his boat: "But come, what can I bring ye from the Carolinas? Any friend of Mr. Balfour's can command. A roll of tobacco? Indian featherwork? A skin of a wild beast? a stone pipe? the mocking-bird that mews for all the world like a cat? the cardinal-bird that is as red as blood? take your pick and say your pleasure."
"Your temptation and mine," he writes to his brother Alexander, "is a tendency to imperiousness and indignant self-help; and, if no wise theoretical, yet, practical forgetfulness and tyrannical contempt of other men." His nicknaming mania was the inheritance of a family failing, always fostered by the mocking-bird at his side. Humour, doubtless, ought to discount many of his criticisms.
A similar frequency of the same physician's calls was noticed about the Café des Exilés. "The man with one eyebrow," said the neighbors, "is sick. Pauline left the house yesterday to make room for him." "Ah! is it possible?" "Yes, it is really true; she and her husband. She took her mocking-bird with her; he carried it; he came back alone."
The eggs of the mocking-bird are blue with brown spots; those of the orpheus are of a beautiful azure tint. Scarcely had we turned in to our leaf-covered huts when I felt some creatures crawling over me. I jumped up, and running to the fire, shook off two or three horrid-looking spiders. My exclamations aroused my companions, and they likewise found several of the same spiders crawling over them.
He was scrambling about the branches, always trying to get a higher place, calling and perking his insignificant tail in true mocking-bird fashion. I think the parents disapproved this early ambition, for they did not feed him for a long time, though they passed him to go to the nest.
But Stephen Lorimer was hundreds and thousands of miles away from them that day of their bitter need, making tentative notes for a chapter on young love for his unborn book, listening to the inevitable mocking-bird in the Japanese garden, waiting for Mildred Lorimer to give him his tea ... wearing the latest of his favorites among her gowns....
I curbed my impatience, stayed another week, and saw all the nestlings out, and the nest deserted. Another charge also fell to the ground on careful observation. The farmers complain as farmers are apt to complain of their best friends, the birds that the mocking-bird eats strawberries. I set myself to watch a fine patch full of ripe and tempting berries, several times when no one was near.
The blue-bird with his azure plumes, the thrush clad all in brown, the robin jerking his spasmodic throat, the oriole drifting like a flake of fire, the jolly bobolink and his happy mate, the mocking-bird imitating the notes of all, the red-bird with his one sweet trill, and the busy little wren, are all making the trees in our front yard ring with their glad song.
"'Gentlemen, said Bill, 'there must be some little, some slight mistake respecting the that is, you must have been misinformed about the the er er Why, there are no twins about this house. "Then they thought he was joking, and the band broke in with 'Listen to the Mocking-bird, and Bill came down to find out the drift of Judge Twiddler's remarks.
Shall we possess the lands the dreamer saw? And will their maidens look with favouring eyes Upon our warriors? Answer us, Spirit of the Mighty Voice! Scarcely had the song of the priest ceased, when the voice of the Wahconda was heard sounding as sweetly as the notes of the mocking-bird rejoicing for the return of her mate, whom she chides for his long absence.
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