From a New England Hillside: Notes from UnderledgeMacmillan and Company, 1895 - 305 pages |
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... birds are mostly quiet , a catbird , with its noisy note , doing most to attract my attention during my morning walk . We shall see and hear more of the birds , but the cheery songs will only come to us again with the opening spring ...
... birds are mostly quiet , a catbird , with its noisy note , doing most to attract my attention during my morning walk . We shall see and hear more of the birds , but the cheery songs will only come to us again with the opening spring ...
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... birds could rest upon the wires with impunity . Per- haps this morning the wires were bringing to this peaceful spot some message of the desolation which has just been wrought in the distant South . But it is not always so peaceful even ...
... birds could rest upon the wires with impunity . Per- haps this morning the wires were bringing to this peaceful spot some message of the desolation which has just been wrought in the distant South . But it is not always so peaceful even ...
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... birds of paradise to night- ingales ' tongues ; seek for turbot in the pools in the intervale , and gather manna from the top of Rattlesnake Mountain ? Nay . Tartarin may go hunt his lions in the desert or creep upward upon the arête of ...
... birds of paradise to night- ingales ' tongues ; seek for turbot in the pools in the intervale , and gather manna from the top of Rattlesnake Mountain ? Nay . Tartarin may go hunt his lions in the desert or creep upward upon the arête of ...
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... birds . And the birds are here too , - the blue- bird and the song sparrow , the robin and the red - winged blackbird , and a host of others , making merry early in the morning and late in the day , and I dare say going a - court- ing ...
... birds . And the birds are here too , - the blue- bird and the song sparrow , the robin and the red - winged blackbird , and a host of others , making merry early in the morning and late in the day , and I dare say going a - court- ing ...
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... birds singing , and the bees humming ; while the steady old earth , which has already seen so many , many summers , revolves upon its axis - shall I say , like a turkey on a spit ? -no , that would be quite too material ; like FROM A ...
... birds singing , and the bees humming ; while the steady old earth , which has already seen so many , many summers , revolves upon its axis - shall I say , like a turkey on a spit ? -no , that would be quite too material ; like FROM A ...
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