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Updated: June 9, 2025
It was early in June; the swallows chased each other in sport, twittering as they flew over the blue bosom of Windermere; every bush, every tree yea, it seemed as if every branch sent forth the music of singing birds, and the very air was redolent with melody, from the bold songs of the thrush and the lark to the love-note of the wood-pigeon; and even the earth rejoiced in the chirp of the grasshopper, its tiny but pleasant musician.
Here it was secluded, yet full of life, and amidst the wealth of sounds in which might be heard the tapping of the woodpecker, the cry of the lapwing, and the call of the distant wood-pigeon, it was so still and peaceful that Eva's heart grew lighter in spite of her grief. Sister Perpetua spoke only to answer a question.
There is voyaging to and fro of birds; the strong wood-pigeon goes over a long course in the air, from hill to distant copse; a blackbird starts from an ash, and, now inclining this way and now that, traverses the meadows to the thick corner hedge; finches go by, and the air is full of larks that sing without ceasing.
She was certain of the time, for these reasons: first, she had seen the wood-pigeon go up into the beech just before she started out; secondly, she remembered nodding to an aged labourer who came up to the house every morning at that hour for his ale; thirdly, it would take a person walking slowly eight or ten minutes to cross that side of the mead; and, fourthly, when she came back to the house to see if Luke was there, the clock pointed to a quarter past, and was known to be a little fast.
'How can I help weeping at the task set me by the king. For he says, if I fail to do it, I shall die a horrible death. 'Oh, there is really nothing to cry about, answered the wood-pigeon soothingly. 'I am the king of the wood-pigeons, whose life you spared when you were hungry.
"Wretch! horrid wretch!" screamed the jay, at the mention of the kissing, in a paroxysm of jealousy. "Pecking is too good for him!" "Send the jackdaw or the crow," said Ki Ki. "No, no," said Kauc and Cloctaw together. "Try the wood-pigeon." "I go? whoo," said the pigeon. "Impossible. Kapchack told me to my face the other day that he more than half suspected me of plotting to go over to Choo Hoo.
And yet I do not believe that I could live a single year with only the sound of cooing in the house. A wood-pigeon would be the death of me. This morning, the 3d of June, the Undine from Green River rose above the waves. The strawberry bed is almost under their windows.
'Oh, prince, I will repay your deed of mercy, said the grateful wood-pigeon. 'Poor thing! how can you repay me? asked the prince. 'You have forgotten, answered the wood-pigeon, 'the proverb that runs, "mountain and mountain can never meet, but one living creature can always come across another." The boy laughed at this speech and went his way.
And Tulpé came over to him and leant upon his shoulder. "Is it in thy mind to see and talk with the new missionary and his wife?" "No," said Chester promptly; "sit thou here, wood-pigeon, and tell me of the customs I read of here." She sat down beside him, and leant her dark head against his knee, fanning herself the while she answered his questions. "As it was then, Kesta, so is it now.
During the deep snow which blocked the roads and covered the fields almost a foot deep, they were silent, but were constantly observed flying to and fro. Immediately it became milder they recommenced to coo, so that at intervals the note of the wood-pigeon was heard in the adjacent house from October, all through the winter, till the nesting time in May.
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