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Updated: June 4, 2025
Well, one Sunday morning I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder in the states, that I hadn't heard from in thirteen years, when a bluejay lit on that house, with an acorn in his mouth, and says, 'Hello, I reckon I've struck something. When he spoke, the acorn dropped out of his mouth and rolled down the roof, of course, but he didn't care; his mind was all on the thing he had struck.
A bluejay and a red-squirrel, two notorious thieves, were loudly berating each other for stealing, and at one time Rag's home bush was the centre of their fight; a yellow warbler caught a blue butterfly but six inches from his nose, and a scarlet and black ladybug, serenely waving her knobbed feelers, took a long walk up one grassblade, down another, and across the nest and over Rag's face and yet he never moved nor even winked.
Both Compton and Young have shot ducks and geese, some on the wing. But we cannot compete with the experiences of Maurice Thompson who, shooting ninety-eight arrows, landed sixteen ducks on the wing. Some amusing incidents have occurred in bird shooting. We consider the bluejay a legitimate mark any day; he is a rascal of the deepest dye, so we always shoot at him.
"Chase that skirt, over there, please she makes too much noise to suit me!" But for once John Flint wasn't a friend to a bluejay he uttered an exclamation of sorrow and dismay. "My nest!" he cried tragically. "My beautiful nest with the four eggs, that I've been watching day by day! And the little mother-thing that knew me, and let me touch her, and feed her, and wasn't afraid of me!
The bluejay's not a whit the worse for it, remember; in fact, he's all the better off, for his stomach is full and his mischief satisfied, and that's all that ever worries a bluejay. And there isn't any redress for the mother-bird. The thing's done, and can't be undone. But between them they've shown John Flint something that forces a man to take sides.
About a year after the wood turned into a gold castle and one morning everything had vanished except a piece of a tree. SARA RAY, WIPING AWAY HER TEARS: "It's a very interesting story, but it ends SO sadly." FELIX: "What made you call it The Battle of the Partridge Eggs when the bluejay had just as much to do with it?" PETER, SHORTLY: "Because it sounded better that way."
And I know that the bluejay, which has been gliding after me curiously the last ten minutes, has fathomed my intentions and flown ahead to alarm the deer, which are now bounding away for denser cover. I brush ahead heedlessly, knowing that caution here only wastes time, and study the fresh trail where the quarry jumped away in alarm. Straight down the wind it goes. Cunning old buck!
"Well, sir, they roosted around here on the housetop and the trees for an hour, and guffawed over that thing like human beings. It ain't any use to tell me a bluejay hasn't got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all over the United States to look down that hole, every summer for three years. Other birds, too.
They are as interesting as the stories of Uncle Remus. The escapades of wildcat, the lion, the grizzly bear, the bluejay, the lizard, and the coyote are as full of excitement and comedy as any fairy story. He knew the history and use of everything in the outdoor world. He spoke the language of the animals. He taught me to make bows and arrows, how to shoot them, and how to hunt, Indian fashion.
Oh, she would bring him to clear vision, to live for nothing but her, even as she asked for nothing but him. The harsh scream of a bluejay struck a discord through her reverie. She remembered that he had yet to be won. "But didn't you tell me people can't get power without money?" she said, forgetting the hiatus in the conversation. "Nor with it generally," he replied, without surprise.
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