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"Wall," the captain gave a gulp that actually brought the tears to his eyes; "as near as I calkalate, Sapfiry was under the limb." "Certainly," said Bachelor Lot; "certainly! and a veery unfortunate poseetion for Sapfiry it was, too.
She was charmed with the superb scenery as on their return they glided along in the shadows of Cro' Nest, whose sides seemed lined with a choir of wood and veery thrushes and other wild songsters. At last they evoked the spirit of music in her. She took an oar with Burt, and they pulled, sang, and laughed together like careless, happy children.
Fox vines trailed in the open places, the rarest wild-flowers flourished, Red-squirrels chattered from the trees. In the mud along the brook-side were tracks of Coon and Mink and other strange fourfoots. And in the trees overhead, the Veery, the Hermit-thrush, or even a Woodthrush sang his sweetly solemn strain, in that golden twilight of the midday forest.
Well for us if we are still able to stand in our place and do faithfully our allotted task, like the mountain spruces and the Bethlehemite road-mender. This is making no account of the gray-cheeked thrushes, who are found only near the tops of the mountains. I have since found both species at Willoughby Lake, Vermont and the veery with them.
Their carriage is preëminently marked by grace, and their songs by melody. Beside the robin, which is in no sense a woodbird, we have in New York the wood thrush, the hermit thrush, the veery, or Wilson's thrush, the olive-backed thrush, and, transiently, one or two other species not so clearly defined.
I love all the Great World and I just have to tell it so. I do not mean to boast when I say that all the Thrush family have good voices." "But you have the best of all," cried Peter. Melody shook his brown head. "I wouldn't say that," said he modestly. "I think the song of my cousin Hermit, is even more beautiful than mine. And then there is my other cousin, Veery. His song is wonderful, I think."
Many of the Concord houses have gardens bordering upon the river; and I was interested to notice that the boats moored at the bank had painted on their sterns plant names or bird names taken from the Concord poems such as "The Rhodora," "The Veery," "The Linnæa," and "The Wood Thrush."
Even at that distance it sounded far off, and doubtless many times in the woods, when I looked for it afar, it may have been over my head. A long time how long I cannot guess that beautiful bird sat and sang his witching evening hymn, while I listened spellbound. It was the tawny thrush, the veery.
The song of the nightingale, with its trills and phrases, would make harmony seemingly crude if compared to either the hermit or veery thrush, nor would the skylark, famous in poetry and song, bear off the prize were the two birds to be heard alternately.
The wood thrush has very clear, distinct oval spots on a white ground; in the hermit, the spots run more into lines, on a ground of a faint bluish white; in the veery, the marks are almost obsolete, and a few rods off his breast presents only a dull yellowish appearance.
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