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" Drop it, drop it, — cover it up, cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty,... "
A Year with the Birds - Page 129
by Wilson Flagg - 1889 - 318 pages
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Walden, Volume 1

Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pages
...brown-thrasher — or red mavis, as some love to call him — all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole,...
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Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Volume 8

Nuttall Ornithological Club - 1883 - 282 pages
...when the maize-seed is being put into the ground. "While you are planting your seed," says Thoreau, "he cries — 'Drop it, drop it — cover it up, cover it up — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up.'" CINCI.US MEXICANUS. The notable habits and waterside haunts of Cinclus mexicanus, together with its...
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Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine

William Hamilton Gibson - 1890 - 212 pages
...wont to superintend the spring planting — of beans, perhaps — with lively interest and counsel. "Drop it, drop it ; cover it up, cover it up ; pull it up, pull it up, pull it up !" in perfect Anglo-Saxon. Over the border in Connecticut, I can vouch for his somewhat similar strain,...
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Rhythmical Gymnastics, Vocal and Physical

Mary Sophia Thompson - 1892 - 152 pages
...copse ; [Song Sparrow.] brisk. The thrush's mellow whistle From woodlands cool and moist ; [Thrush.] Drop it drop it cov-er it up cover it up pull it up pull it up pull it up tut tut tut see see Bee there yon have it bae it bae it ==L — lin**!: i tat tut tut work away work...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...brown thrasher — or red mavis, as some love to call him — all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole,...
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Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds

Mabel Osgood Wright - 1897 - 494 pages
...the song is always bold and ejaculatory, as Thoreau describes it: " Upon the topmost spray of a tree sings the Brown Thrasher, or Red Mavis, as some love...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up.' " A different mood, that of a reflective shoemaker whom Wilson Flagg knew, wove the song into other...
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Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds

Mabel Osgood Wright - 1897 - 510 pages
...ejaculatory, as Thoreau describes it: " Upon the topmost spray of a tree sings the Brown Thrasher, or Bed Mavis, as some love to call him, — all the morning...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up.' " A different mood, that of a reflective shoemaker whom Wilson Flagg knew, wove the song into other...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 37

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...brown thrasher — or red mavis, as some love to call him — all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it wa.s safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole,...
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Nature's Diary

Francis Henry Allen - 1897 - 416 pages
...brown thrasher — or red mavis, as some love to call him — all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." . . . You may wonder what his rigmarole, his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty,...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...brown thrasher — or red mavis, as some love to call him — all the morning, glad of your society, that would find out another farmer's field if yours...cover it up, — pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole,...
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