The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-11-22

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where the little wife was busy, the live
~ gossip across the street with neigh
bors in another tree, the warning "Tutl
tut' when a stranger appeared, the
wal cry when an intrnding bird was ia
be driven away, and the Joyous
'F-e-e-p! tut, tut, tut, when he aliaht-
ed on the fence and surveyed the lawn
before him, tapping his wings and
Jerking his tail with every note.
In truth, the sounds one hears in a
robin neighborhood are almost as vari-
Gus as those that salute his ear anono
people; the laugh, the cry, the scold,
the gentle word, the warning, the
alarm, and many others.
When first took my seat felt like
an intruder, which the robin plainly
considered me to be, He eyed me with
the greatest suspicion, alig6ting on the
ground in terrible futter, n solved to
brave the ogre,.yet on the alert, and
ready for instant Hight should ANYTHING
threaten. The moment he touched the
ground, he would lower his head and
run with breathless haste five OF Six
feet; then stop, raise his head as pert as
q daisy, and look at the monster to see
i it had moved. terconvineino HIM
self that all was safe, he would turn his
eyes downward. and in an instant
thrust his bill into the soil where the
sod was thin, throwing up a little
showerof earth, and doingth;s again and
again, SO yehemently that sometimes
ne was taken off his feet BY the jerk.
Then he would drag ont a worm, run Il
Iew teet farther in q pauicsstricken
way, as though taking his life in his
hands, again look on the ground, and
again pull out . worm; an the time in
an lfc nsequent manner, as though he
had no hing particular on his mind, and
merely collected worms by way of pass
ing the time.
30 ne would 60 on, never eating a
morsel, but gathering worms till he had
three OF four Of the wriggling creatures
hanging from his firm little beak. Then
he would fly to a low branch, run up Il
little way, take another short fight. and
thus having. as he plainly intended by
this zigzag course, completely deceived
the observer as TO his destination. he
would slip quietly to the nest, and quick
~ dispose of his load. In half minute
he was back again, running and watch
ing, and digging as before. And this
work he Kept up nearly all day. In
silence, too, for noisy and taikative as
the bird is, he keeps his mouth shut
when on the ground. In all my watch
ing of robins for years in several places.
scarcely ever heard one make a sound
when on the ground, near human
dwelling.
Once | was looking through blinds,
and the bird did not see me. He had,
after much labor, secured an unusually
large worm, and it lay d few inches
away where it fell as he gave it the final
'syank. \ This was an extraordinary
case the robin was too full to hold in
and there bubbled out Of his closed bill
a soft CHEEKY! CHEEKY! be CHEEKY "
hardly above a whisper and half fright
ened withal. Then catching the trophy
he flew away, doubtless to show his
luck, and tell bis tale at home.
The robin has been accused of being
quarrelsome; and to be sure he does de-
fend his home with vigor, driving away
any bird which ventures to alight on his
special maple-tree, sometimes with a
loud cry of defiance. and again without
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