The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-04-24
Listen to the Jay Bird.

How sublime and touching the
article OF tile gifted Frank NJ. DAT
fey upon the Mocking Bird! Mem
cries Of chiIdhood's merry, thought
less, happy hours come crowding up
in sweet array! How beautiful!
How we wish his facile pen would
now be thrust n the brIght-plumed
Jay Bird II we but had the
sword of the late Col. DamOcies
and could dip it in pot of diction-
ary soup seasoned with Miltonic
sauce. we would attempt the task
ourselves and write in living cOlors
of photographed Elimination the
thoughts awakened by a contempla-
ton Of this leathered CyGnurUs
Cristatus. 70 the beautiful Jay
belongs the honor of having first
sung the dulceJ notes of "WhOa,
Emma For hours have we re
clined meath the dendriform shad
ows Of the spreading black jack and
witnessed the sparkling tints re-
fcctrd by the setting sun from the
shining tail feathers as they bobbed
time 10 his sugar-mill song, won
dcring why he couldn't slueal with
out lifting up behind. 1t taught
us our first lesson in the great lew
OF compensatIUn-which is only the
refined essence distracted from the
concrete and made of practical abil
ity by Col. Fairbanks. And then
we have held our breath in admira-
ton to see him put into execution
the grandest principle in geometri
cal science, when lac would turn his
crested caput first one side and
then the other and thus take a par
allaX on stump in the distance,
where he hoped to gobble luscious
worm. Dear, tender hearted, low
ing reader. don't you remember
that you laid awake all the night
looking out the window TO see the
trees turn over the day you first
learned that the world reVolved?
How YOU trembled lest you would
fall off and be impsled upon one
of the glIttering prongs OF some
thousand pointed star! Right well
do we remember, when we were first
informed that Jay birds all went to
Hades every FRIDAY, how we longed
and waited for the next Friday to
come to see il it we're true, 1t is
true, we know, and o we wouldn't
have cur mind disabused of the
glorious thought for dozen vain
wOrldsi but how crllent and
4, Use Is Nature, in that she compels
Il man to forget to watch on Friday I!
We have watched and waited, .
how hreathlessly and with purest
intent, for Friday to come, and then
when the llggard arrived we for
got what we wanted with it.
Thus the grand truth lies hidden in
impenetIable mystery and we can
only conjecture why this binocular
hehocentrical parallaXical bird of
passage takes periodical flights to
the regions OF perfected cooking
arrangements. Is il TO carry comfort
TO the iil-starrcd hosts who have
planted their colonies on its roast
ing plains? Or docs he 20 to fill
up Nth the melody that he let s
fall from his INCREASED thorax when
he revisits the gimpses Of our back
yardsI Or perhaps, (now sublime
the thoughtD he goes to take par.
allax upon eternity,.and running his
eye down the vista of time bring uI
his vision upon the time when the
estate of His Satanic Majesty will
be wound no in the Heavenly Chan
Gerry and the hosts Of demon
turned out aud settled for n com
monwcalth of radical statesmen. c
thou bird of prescience and infnit,
lung power and likewise tail-handi
ness! o memoriesl q childhood
. the devil!