per-se-cu-test

Updated: May 13, 2025

One sang it with indignation; another with remonstrance; still another with resignation; others yet with ethereal sadness or wild elusive pain. Once more the house-wren aloud, "per-se-cu-test per-se-cu-test per-se-cu-test per-se-cu-test!" And as I peeped into the brush-pile, again the brown thrush, building within, said, "thou thou thou!"

James Lane Allen - A Kentucky Cardinal