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Why, then, the thrasher may be considered as a medical attendant to the whale; and, from the specimen we have witnessed of his humanity, a naval practitioner, I have no doubt," added Jerry. "Very well, Mr Jerry; if ever you come under my hands, you shall smart for that." "Very little chance, doctor: I'm such a miserable object, that even disease passes by me with contempt.
Through the barnyard smells began to drift...the greasiness of food cooking in the field kitchen. "Ah hope they give us somethin' good to eat," said Chrisfield. "Ah'm hongry as a thrasher." "So am I," said Andrews. "Say, Andy, you kin talk their language a li'l', can't ye?" Andrews nodded his head vaguely. "Well, maybe we kin git some aigs or somethin' out of the lady down there.
He never fell in quickly with a new plan, no matter what it might be. And more than once he had made matters somewhat difficult for the Pleasant Valley Singing Society. He was hard to please. Being a very brilliant singer himself, he was never what you might call keen to take in a new member. When Mr. Meadowlark had told him about his idea Buddy Brown Thrasher gave a sharp whistle, "Wheeu!"
As compared with the practice of insular Britain, there were not half enough of them, but wages are high in that country, and the crew of the thrasher paid by the bushel, while the rest had long worked for their own hand on the levels of Manitoba and in the bush of Ontario, and knew that the sooner their toil was over the sooner they would go home again with well-lined pockets.
Even the brown thrasher, whose ordinary performance, is so full-voiced, not to say boisterous, will sometimes soliloquize, or seem to soliloquize, in the faintest of undertones. The formless autumnal warble of the song sparrow is familiar to every one.
"He is not so well," said the captain, "as I and all his subjects could wish." "More's the pity," replied Neptune; "and how is the Prince of Wales?" "The Prince is well," said the captain, "and now governs as regent in the name of his royal father." "And how does he get on with his wife?" said the inquisitive god. "Bad enough," said the captain; "they agree together like a whale and a thrasher."
And if you thought me to be a gambler you had just reason to suspect any ill of me; for I myself am confined here by the perjury of one of those villains, who, having cheated me of my money at play, and hearing that I intended to apply to a magistrate against him, himself began the attack, and obtained a warrant against me of Justice Thrasher, who, without hearing one speech in my defence, committed me to this place."
Nearer, and still nearer, they drew, surrounded him, and seemed about to fall upon him in a body, when he suddenly wheeled, and like a flash of light dashed right and left almost simultaneously, as if he had become two birds, and the impertinent enemy fairly vanished before him. Like many another bird, however, the thrasher, although not afraid of sparrows, disliked a continual row.
Very pretty, but not so beautiful as the three broad white stripes on his crown and the white choker under his chin. Suddenly a brown thrasher breaks into a melody from the top of a wild cherry, and then it is as if a famous operatic coloratura soprano had joined the village choir. For power and continuity of song he is without a peer.
Look," continued he, pointing with his finger in a direction under the land, "there's a battle between the whale and the thrasher." The remark of the midshipman was correct, and the whole party congregated on the taffrail to witness the struggle which had already commenced.
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