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Every afternoon when I came home from the office, tired out with the heat and the fierce glare of the sun, he would hop over to my chair, whistle soothingly, and make funny little chirrups with his lips, until I noticed him.
In the middle distance is a white lighthouse, and beyond lie the round tower of old Fort Louis and the soft low hills of Conanicut. Behind me an oriole chirrups in triumph amid the birch-trees which wave around the house of the haunted window; before me a kingfisher pauses and waits, and a darting blackbird shows the scarlet on his wings.
In a short while she had gathered them all upon her back and into her pouch; and commenced retreating from the spot while the orioles changed their terrified screaming into chirrups of victory. "Frank and I now deemed it proper to interfere, and cut off the retreat of the `old 'possum; so, dropping from our perch, we soon overtook and captured the whole family.
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