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He utters his long, loud spring call, whick whick whick whick, and then begins to rap with his beak upon his perch before the last note has reached your ear. I have seen him drum sitting upon the ridge of the barn. The log cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum. His blows should wake the echoes.
"Pickett wouldn't have got fresh, an' Kelso would have kept himself mighty shady. We'd have fought it out, square me an' Masten. I reckon I didn't kill Pickett and Kelso; it was Masten that done it." He came, after a while, to the rock upon whick he had found Ruth lying on the night of the accident. And he sat and looked long at the grass plot where he had laid her when she had fainted.
For the first twenty minutes the general harmony of this fine row might be set to music, according to a scale something like this: Whick whack crick crack whick whack crick crack &c, &c, &o. 'Hurroo for the O'Callaghans! 'Mur-ther! murther! Blood and turf! "You are to suppose them, here to have been at it for about half an hour. "'Oh! for the love of.
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