National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-21
A HOOKING BIRDS TRIALS.
THE FEATHERED soYGsTER IN HIS
ORY DEFENCE

SYMPATHY OF A FAIR ADMIRER-w. UP
THROWS UP THE SPONGE, AND GRACE
FULLY AND HUMoRoUsLY CONSENTS
THAT HE MAY STILL LIVE AND SING,
Poor little bird. No one to defend thee. At
the midnight hour pouring out thy hearts Wild
sweet song Of love and loneliness. Calling, call
ing, ever increasingly, but no love to come to
thea. Far away In the wind Woocs . thy bird
people, happy in their loves and homes, while
thou art prisonsd, doomed to sing on, With only
the silver moon and the bright stars to cheer
thee. No one to defend theeI Yes, sweet bird,
one voice shall be heard In thy parise. Sing on
thy song is all thou hast Of happiness. Thou art
unconscious Of the cruel voices raised against
thee. It Is well. ESD thou W0uldst fall dead,
broken hearted. Let the old maids and baohe,
lors, who rattle their bones restlessly through
the hours OF thy night song, suffer, Il It be that
thou canst be. Let those whose nerves are shat
tered by long years Of hope deferred and dlsap-
them pain The ght wISd Is thine 70 send nv
messages far away-alas, TO be never received, TO
be never answered.. love thee; thy song Is
the mocking bird" Yes, listen, and al the
midnight hour, when for O little while the veil
Of sleep is lftsd from the mind, thy song is like
away unto rest and forgetfulness Of all that is
sad or troublous. ADMIRER
". UPP's OPINION OF THR CASE.
We've seen the bird alluded to in the above
We stood for thirty minutes on the bllsterlng
pavement, opposite his wire cage, and watched
him get on the outside Of q Boston cracker, and
heard him howl Unsatisfactory because there
were no more crackers to cover into his castro
nomieal ls6Yrinths. Poor little thing, born to die
with the excavations OF nifty or more peace-oving
and ta1-paying people on his head, with nothing
but fun moon and a half dozen Indifferent plan.
etary worlds to mourn his loss. Bless the
DiR6OO-tORd rhaF h.
shall sing Il he wants to, no matter what Dr.
Smith and Mr.. Peters, and old Mrs. Talbot and
the guests or the Ebbitt house may think about
it, he shall MARBLE his thrilling and scaIp-liftng
notes just as long IS his little bellows hold out
provided he don't die Of grape and canister or
beloved catastrophe happens. He shall, indeed |
belch forth his auditory nerve and QUIET rest |
diseooobalstipg compound, no matter though on |
IN the Silly hour Of night the venerable Squire |
Hopkins arises like one 10 . wild dream aud |
PUSHES mRdly TO his after chamber window and |
!feathery hend crawl In his little hole and take
The hole In after him"
He shall not 'fsll down dead and broken-hesrt-
ID" with remorse, just because fifty or q hundred
respectable and Intelligent old residents or this
own have raised their voices against him for the
tmple reason that he is an idiot BY nature and q
nuisance by custom. He shan'E do any such thing;
It least not IS long as there are any good shot |
guns in town and hooking birds on toast are rel
shsble. Bless his little heart, he shan't "dry up
md simmer down, cork up and bust, until he
personally dellres IT. no matter how many old
maids and sundry oock-eyed bachelors rattle their
lie eOuches in vain efforts to kick sleep into brains
Ilready ranked and wild with the Plutonlc-iu-
Pired mocking- bird and Babel-onish chin music
10; neither shall the prayers and petitions Of
hose who now lie on beds OF sickneGs and pain
Iithin the sound Of hi: blrdShip'S voice avail
osedly under the benign influence Of that music,
OF them take up their beds and walk. We've
cen great, many inTsllds 6enehtsd By walking,
Ii enough to lie around on beds Of sickness and
gsSins Is l0pg 5thS court understands her
He can't help those beds Of sickness and suffer-
~, and II BE Gould he wouldn't Be liable 10 have
hem removed for his own personal comfort. Not 1
luch. He isn't that kind Of man. And yet the ,
lost important thing about this bird Is the fact
hat he sends message; "far away" in the night,
lessages H. but, after all, this shooting mocking
ird neWs around promseuously 10 the dark isn't ,
1e best thing In the world to get fat on. lift f.
q merclful God-send interspeTsed with ma5y '
lesslngs. Since We saw that birds capacity for =
oston crackers We have taken q great liking to !
hen he is served up on toast to our city fathers.
lie obituary notice wouldn't be 0 bad thing TO c
rite tthi9 whole diaqultyl W. UP.
tbs MooKlNG sIRD's DEFENCE.
D the Editor Of the National Republican:
S r: 1.-THE hooking bird on street, between
hlrteenth and Fourteenth streets" presents his
mplments to the Lady Clerk, -" and those who /
I've come to her aid, and begs permission to say
at he never sweeps of sidewalks until 1t has
me showing.
When the storm abates he intends to have his
y, In . way that he hopes will maintain his 9
esent reputation. Meanwhile no believes, and c
10 90 advised, that there Is nothing In the or.
mic law, nor any Of the sixteen amendments
ereto, which forbids him to exercise the func- /
pms bestowed on him by nature. s
He takes consolation too, from the fact that his
emles are not In possession Of oil the guns. S. f.
MORE WORDS OF DEFENCE
tie Editor Of the National Republican: &
Sra: read Q communication In your public q
irited Journal yesterday, signed "a Lady n
Jerk" IN regard to . "Wretehed hooking bird 4
at makes night hideous IN that otherwise quiet d
'ighborhood." Now, sir, think that the one D
DO first penned the complaint against this n
Fretehed moekinR bird, !" together with Lady T.
ERIK" ought by all means TO be so strongly Z
plleed" t6Setief tha( mo nan could put Z
under.n Those who complain of the mellihuent y
ties Of the mockinB bird, As Shakspeare would y
we II, "hRth 70 music In their souls" and "ht y
ly for treason, stratagem and spOils." And, !,
r. Editor We are fully aware OF the tedious n
'easury, which amounts to not more than q
sre say so. We greatly fear that those perni- n
,uS habits consequent upon laying Abed In the II
Irnlng has rendered "Lsdy Clerk" so nerYeless -
not 70 be able TO endure the sWeetsounding ~
tes OF the MoOKING BIRD. r.
P. S.-qet married, LADY Clerk" and have u y
ne babies to make "night hideous," and see ~
rat you will then have TO say against poor y
- LrAaS- -; AocKLNq BIRD.