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Updated: July 18, 2025
Wood-thrushes and other birds sang as melodiously and contentedly as if they had selected some breezy upland forest for their nesting-place instead of a region which has become a synonym for gloom, horror, and death. Lonely and uninhabited in its normal condition, this forbidding wilderness had become peopled with thousands of men.
And breakfast with trout and short-cake short-cake with cream, mind you! in New England in June, when the windows open on the grass and the wood-thrushes are calling, is just about as near paradise as you can get in this old world. Fate produced a man who had chickens to sell With June the Pride and the Hope came home from school.
And then when I come here the thinkin' started all over again differently when I was goin' back and forwards from school and walkin' around in the woods and listenin' to the wood-thrushes, and sittin' here in the porch at night alone and lyin' up in the loft there lookin' out of the little window.
But all through the day there were times when she could play with the boy in the garden, and every afternoon, when it was not raining, she would slip away to a little ravine behind the cabin, where a log had fallen across a little brook, and there in the cool, sun-pierced shadows she would study, read and dream with the water bubbling underneath and wood-thrushes singing overhead.
From the sides of the mountains and in the valleys water poured forth in rippling, singing floods. There bakneesh glowed on bared rocks. Moose-birds, and jays, and wood-thrushes flitted about the camp, and the air was filled with the fragrant smells of new life bursting from earth, and tree, and shrub.
In New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, everywhere it is the same, they out-number all rivals three to one. It is necessary to listen closely in order to distinguish the other voices. This particular morning, however, the wood-thrushes were all arranged up the copsy hillside at my back, and so reinforced each other that their part was not overborne by robin song.
It was level, shorn of weeds, elliptical in shape, and bound in by trees that ran in a semicircle around the bank of the river, shut in the southern border, and ran back to the northern extremity in a primeval little forest that wood-thrushes, even then, were making musical all of it shut in by a wall of living green, save for one narrow space through which the knights were to enter.
The birds chirped and pecked above our heads. Angel asked: "Did you do much cobbling in the van, Mr. Martindale?" "Ay, cobbling and tinkering too. The forest birds liked to hear me just the same as those canaries. Especially the tinkering. They'd crowd about and sing fit to burst their throats wood-thrushes, finches, and all sorts.
Seeing her at the window, he shouted, "Amy, the orioles and the wood-thrushes the finest birds of the year have come. Hurry up and go with me to the grove yonder." Soon after Webb, returning from a distant field to breakfast, met her near the grove.
Everywhere were evidences that spring was near at hand. Many trees and shrubs were showing the delicate gray green of coming buds; and now and then the fragrance of the wild arbutus was in the air. Birds were busy; wood-thrushes and pewees were calling; now and then a golden-throated warbler sounded his clear note.
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