The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-26
Wants to Be a Bird.
An Iowa girl poet sends US a poem
the first line of which Is as follows
az would were a bird >,


An Iowa girl poet sends US a poem,
the first line of which IS as follows
al would I were bird.'
That settled her hash. No birds need
apply. What In the wide world a decent
looking, healthy girl wants to be bird
for, is more than we can imagine. Grant
ing that an Iowa girl poet is as hand
some as q statue, how like thunder she
would look as a bird, sitting on a rail
fence on one leg, scratching her feathers
with one claw, or hopping down under
a gooseberry bush scratching for angle
worms with her bare toe nails. If the
girl poet bird should find an anglewQrm
she would run away and scream. But
maybe 1t is not that kind of bird she
wants to be. There Is no kind of bird
that can have so much fun as n girl.
As n girl she can go to all the places of
amusement, dance and dirt and get
mashed, but as bird, withholding on but
feathers, she would catch cold. Imagine
a girl poet flying around in the trees,
hopping from limb to limb. She would
have the whole town watching her, and
making remarks. Think how girl
poet would feel if she was a bird, and
should be moulting. She would watch
every feather that dropped off, and Won
der how long the feathers were going
to hold out. And then If the girl poet
was a bird she would have to set, If she
was that kind of poet, or bird, and
the setting would commence Just when
there was the most going on IN society,
and she would have to stay right by re-
CARELESS, and after the poet bird got of
the nest she would look sick and 1t
would take her six weeks to recruit up
so as to make a decent appearance In
bird society. If girl poet desires to be
a bird in order to get Out Of any OF the
| duties of life, SO as to have high old
/ time chirruping around stealing cherries,
and singing the livelong day, she makes
| a mistake. Birds may seem to be free
! from care, and to have a soft thing, but
! they have n heap Of trouble. There Is
| the same jealousy and back-bltlng
among birds that there Is among human
/ beings, and a good-looking, well-dressed
! bird, who has any style about her, and
! is a trifie independent and jolly, viii find
| that she VIII get her feathers rumpled,
and be called names, and she VIII wish
some boy with a bean-snapper would
fire n load of beans right through her.
| Our Iowa poet does not say what kind OF
a bird she would like to be, but we can
! think Of any kind Of bird that would be
as good as n girl. OF course she wOuldn
want to be a canary bird, or n mocking
| bird. In a cage and have to sing for
| hemp seed and mocking-bird food, and
| look out for cats. She would probably
want TO be a wild, out door, go-as-you-
| please sort Of bird. Well, there is none
of that kind that are perfectly safe, and
who always have a good time. If oul
girl poet bird WAS Il duck or a wild
| goose, she would be flying along some
day when there would be a puff OF
! smoke under her, and she would feel as
though she had hot box, and would &c
off and sit on muskrat house all night
picking No. shot out of her dark meat
or the second joint, or elsewhere, as th(
case might be. There wouldn't be much
fun in that. If she was q pigeon she
| would be caught In a trap and have hel
neck wrung. And whatever kind of 8
bird our poet might be, she would hav,
to scratch gravel for a living, and ca
worms. The outlook would not be first
class. The only bird she could be, anC
be success, would be a hen, and hav,
"a rooster scratch for her, and then Their,
would be the drawback Of having Il
share the worms her own darling rOostel
might find with a whole flock Of hens
Ii our Iowa girl poet has got n fair iol
| in her business. and can have an extri
dress TO wear to parties, and can catcf
on 70 a fellow once III while, and doe:
| not want the earth, she should cease
| repining. let this bird scheme go, and be
contented as a girl. a girl can discount
all the birds IN the woods. and be IN nc
| danger of being shot by boys with
! sings. PecE's Sun.