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Updated: June 6, 2025
In fighting the insects, our only allies in nature are the songbirds, woodpeckers, shore-birds, swallows and martins, certain hawks, moles, shrews, bats, and a few other living creatures. All these wage war at their own expense. The farmers might just as well lose $8,250,000 through a short apple crop as to pay out that sum in labor and materials in spraying operations.
The grove and the tower are A ROCCOLO! A huge, permanent, merciless, deadly trap, for the wholesale capture of songbirds! The tower is the hiding place of the fowler, and the calling birds are decoy birds whose eyes have been totally blinded by red-hot wires in order that they will call more frantically than birds with eyes would do.
Here she kept her books, her lute, and her songbirds; and the key of her retreat hung always at her girdle, and was placed at night beneath her pillow. This evening she had been hastily dismissed from her father's presence, he having come in with agitated face, and bidden her instantly take herself away whilst he spoke with her mother.
"No!" cried Freckles. "No! I don't remember anything of the kind!" But all the songbirds of his soul burst into melody over that one little clause: "When you hadn't asked her." "But you will," said the Angel. "You may live to be an old, old man, and then you will." "I will not!" cried Freckles. "How can you think it, Angel?" "You won't even LOOK as if you remember?"
His fancy painted to him, in glowing colours, how happy he should be in his roomy 'Poet's Hall, standing on his own land, 'a beautiful spot of six or seven acres, full of flowers and fruit trees, with hedges of roses and laurel, and songbirds nestling under the green leaves.
It was beautiful and soft and balmy; the world at full exuberance; the buds upon the trees, the flowers, and the songbirds singing. I could not understand it. It was so beautiful and soft. My heart was still beating fiercely, still black with perversity and stricken rancour. The world had no right to be so. I hated with the full rush of childish anger. And then I saw.
I could readily understand how his innate poetic delicacy had been affronted by the dreary, disciplinary atmosphere of a schoolroom. "That is why I opened Santiniketan under the shady trees and the glories of the sky." He motioned eloquently to a little group studying in the beautiful garden. "A child is in his natural setting amidst the flowers and songbirds.
We could have squirrels in every grove, and songbirds by the million, merely by protecting them from slaughter and molestation. From Ohio to the great plains, the pinnated grouse could be made far more common than crows and blackbirds. Let the American people answer this question with "Yes" or "No."
They are essentially mammalia, inasmuch as they produce their young in a breathing state and suckle them. The bats of England and other cold climates remain in a torpid condition, and only spread their wings of stretched skin when the songbirds report the advent of the warmth of spring.
There was never a buzzard or kite, raven or crow, left in all the woodland, and then I minded that overhead lately the birds of prey had all flown in one direction, and that toward where Norton lay. It was the cry of the kite and the voice of the songbirds that I missed.
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