He awoke long before morning, shivering, and saying to himself, "I never was out in such a cold night;" he had really been out in colder nights when he was a
bird, but, of course, as everybody knows, what seems a warm night to a
bird is a cold night to a boy in a nightgown.
In fanciful stories people can talk to the
birds freely, and I wish for the moment I could pretend that this were such a story, and say that Peter replied intelligently to the Never
bird; but truth is best, and I want to tell you only what really happened.
Of this
bird, Sophia, then about thirteen years old, was so extremely fond, that her chief business was to feed and tend it, and her chief pleasure to play with it.
Then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden
bird very easily; and when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood, and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting; so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it.
A mocking-bird (Mimus orpheus), called by the inhabitants Calandria, is remarkable, from possessing a song far superior to that of any other
bird in the country: indeed, it is nearly the only
bird in South America which I have observed to take its stand for the purpose of singing.
Bird cast a glance at a camphor-bottle, which stood in the half-open closet, and appeared to meditate an approach to it, but her husband interposed.
Your messenger has only to follow the road that passes by your house, for twenty days, and at the end of that time, he is to ask the first person he meets for the Talking
Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water." She then rose, and bidding farewell to the princess, went her way.
'But where is he to find the Witch-maiden?' said the first
bird.
However, a
bird peculiar to these lands, and which has never passed the limits of the Arrow and Papuan islands, was wanting in this collection.
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning -- little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing
bird above his chamber door --
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing
bird above his chamber door--
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."
"Here it is!" said Levin, pointing to Laska, who with one ear raised, wagging the end of her shaggy tail, came slowly back as though she would prolong the pleasure, and as it were smiling, brought the dead
bird to her master.
