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And it did not make her feel any pleasanter to hear Solomon’s mocking laughter, which grew fainter and fainter as he left the pasture behind him. Then she went inside her house, for she was fast growing sleepy. And she wanted to set things to rights before she began her long winter’s nap. Meanwhile, Solomon Owl roamed restlessly through the woods.
And whilst John saith, “It was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication,” he gives a reason only of the confluence of many people at Jerusalem, and showeth how it came to pass that Christ had occasion to preach to such a great multitude; and whilst he addeth “And it was winter,” he giveth a reason of Christ’s walking in Solomon’s porch, whither the Jews’ resort was.
Solomon Owl, however, remembered each time to remove his nightcap before sticking his head out. And it might be said that neither of them was exactly pleased. For Reddy Woodpecker was disappointed; and Solomon Owl was angry. Not a day passed that Reddy Woodpecker didn’t disturb Solomon’s rest at least a dozen times.
But she did not lose her temper, in spite of Solomon’s jeers. “You’ll be back here again the very next time you’re ill,” she remarked. “And if you continue to swallow your food whole——” But Solomon Owl did not even wait to hear what she said. He was so impolite that he flew away while she was talking.
Frog. “Just lend me a hand! I can’t see to help myself.” But Mr. Frog did not even answer him. “Don’t you hear me?” Solomon Owl shouted, as he struggled with his new coat, only to become tangled in it more than ever. Still, the tailor said never a word, though something very like a giggle, followed by a splash, caught Solomon’s ear. “He’s left me!” Solomon Owl groaned. “Mr.
“I’ll take off the coat,” he said. “And I know now that you’re a very poor tailor, or you wouldn’t have made such a mistake.” He began to tug at the coat. But he soon found that taking it off was not so easy as putting it on. Solomon’s sharp claws caught in the cloth; and his hooked beak, too, fastened itself in the hood the moment he tried to pull the coat over his head. “Here!” he cried to Mr.
So he was glad when the time came for him to return to her house in the pasture. Solomon’s neighbors had been so interested in watching him that they were all sorry when he ceased his strange actions. Indeed, there was a rumor that Solomon had become very angry with Farmer Green and that he was trying to knock down some of Farmer Green’s trees.
They occupy three or four acres on the mountain’s side, and many of them are gnarled in a way that implies great age, but except these signs I saw nothing in their appearance or conduct that tended to prove them contemporaries of the cedars employed in Solomon’s Temple.
He was thinking of the time when Solomon Owl had chased him. And sleeping in Solomon Owl’s house seemed far from a safe thing to do. Benjamin Asked Solomon’s Advice Solomon was wise enough to guess what was going on inside Benjamin’s head. “Come along!” he said. “We’ll both be asleep before we know it. I’m sorry I can’t offer you something to eat. But I haven’t a morsel of food in my house.
And when Jasper looked, and saw Solomon’s great, round, pale, questioning face, all tied up in a red nightcap, he began to scream. They were no ordinary screams—those shrieks of Jasper Jay’s. That blue-coated rascal was the noisiest of all the feathered folk in Pleasant Valley. And now he fairly made the woods echo with his hoarse cries.
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