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As with the goldfinch, the reason is, probably, that suitable food for the young cannot be had at an earlier period. Like most of our common species, as the robin, sparrow, bluebird, pewee, wren, etc., this bird sometimes seeks wild, remote localities in which to rear its young; at others, takes up its abode near that of man.
Riley didn't know that Allen Mackay and Jack Dudley, hidden in the bushes, heard this speech, nor that Jack, as soon as he had heard the plan, crept away to tell Bob at the house what the enemy proposed to do. As the crowd neared the log-house, Riley prudently fell to the rear, and pushed Pewee to the front.
"You won't touch me. You go about bullying little boys, and calling yourself King Pewee, but you can't do a sum in long division, nor in short subtraction, for that matter, and you let fellows like Riley make a fool of you. Your father's poor, and your mother can't keep a girl, and you ought to be ashamed to let her milk the cows. Who milked your cow this morning, Pewee?"
He has to coax you to stand by him, to protect him from poor little me. He's a great big " "Calf," broke in Bob Holliday, with a laugh. "You'd better be careful," said Pewee to Jack, rising to his feet. "I stand by Riley." "Will you defend him if I hit him?" "Yes." "Well, then, I won't hit him. But you don't mean that he is to abuse me, while I am not allowed to answer back a word?"
"When you have once met him face to face and heard his sad cry 'pewee pewee pee-eer weer! you will probably find half a dozen pairs about home. "It is usual to call the notes of this bird sad; but it only seems so from our point of view; for he is a happy, fussy little bird, and I dare say that when he calls he is only saying 'peek-a-boo! to his mate on the other side of the tree."
Just as Jack was caught, and Pewee was about to start homeward as fox, the boys caught sight of two steam-boats racing down the river. The whole party was soon perched on a fallen sycamore, watching first the "Swiftsure" and then the "Ben Franklin," while the black smoke poured from their chimneys.
"I won't do it no more," begged Pewee "'pon my word and honor I won't." "Oh, you don't gits off dat away no more, a'ready. You know what I'll giff you when I git you home, you leedle ruffen. I shows you how to vite, a'ready." And the king disappeared down the street, begging like a spaniel, and vowing that he "wouldn't do it no more."
"It's Bugbee, the watchman, going to arrest us," said Pewee. "It's Mr. Ball himself," said Riley, "and he'll whip us all." And he fled, followed pell-mell by the whole crowd, excepting Jack, who had a constitutional aversion to running away. He only slunk up close to the fence and so stood still. "Hello! Who are you?" The voice was not that of Mr.
But he got a severe whipping, I fear; it is doubtful if such beatings ever do any good. The next morning Jack appeared at school with a black eye, and Pewee had some scratches, so the master whipped them both for fighting.
The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest. The phoebe-bird is the pioneer of the flycatchers, and comes in April, sometimes in March. Its comes familiarly about the house and outbuildings, and usually builds beneath hay-sheds or under bridges.
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