There is another town above Las Uvas that merits some attention, a town of arches and airy crofts, full of linnets, blackbirds, fruit birds, small sharp hawks, and mockingbirds that sing by night.

The mockingbird cannot withhold; he breaks into songshe turnsshe turns her faceit is she, it is she!

Here, too is an exquisite snatchon Memory: Fond Memory, like a mockingbird, Within the widow'd heart is heard, Repeating every touching tone Of voices that from earth hath gone.

A Mockingbird sang at Chickamauga: a tale of embattled Chattanooga.

Some of these friendly birds are the Sage Thrasher, the Mockingbird, the Catbird, the Brown Thrasher, the Rock Wren, the House Wren, and the Long-billed Marsh Wren, the last being the only really shy bird among the seven I am going to tell you about.

"Do Wrens and Mockingbirds belong to the same family?" asked Nat.

Mother had a Mockingbird in a cage once, but it got out and flew away to live in the park, she thought.

He also ventures up on the mountain sides, giving his inquisitive, questioning, mocking notes, and so earns a second name in those places, where he is called the Mountain Mockingbird.

"Though he is a good deal smaller than the true Mockingbird of the South, they have many points in common.

Not that they all do itoh, no, many have only their own beautiful natural song; every Mockingbird has not the power of imitation, but certain members of the tribe acquire a knack of mockery of which they seem quite conscious.

THE MOCKINGBIRD "Mammy Bun knows about Mockingbirds," said Dodo.

THE MOCKINGBIRD "Mammy Bun knows about Mockingbirds," said Dodo.

" "Suppose we ask mammy to come and tell us about the Mockingbirds herself," said Olive, "May we, father?"

[Illustration: Mockingbird.]

"What mammy has said about the Mockingbird in his summer home is true.

" The Mockingbird Length about ten inches.

The Mockingbird thrashes about in his cage; the Brown Thrasher on the ground under the bushes; the House Wren does the same, and the tiny Winter Wren gives his tail a jerk instead, for it is not long enough to really thrash.

This Brown Thrasher is sometimes called Song Thrush, Brown Thrush, Brown Mockingbird, and Mavisthough the first and the last of these four names belong only to a kind of European Thrush that is never found in this country.

The Mockingbird can imitate many sounds, but all these come directly from the bird; while the Chat can perch on a twig above your head and give a whistle that seems to come from a bush across the road.

But in late March and early April, when he is about to take his homeward journey to the North, he often warbles beautifully, and even brings in some mocking notes, until you would think that a Catbird, Thrasher, or Mockingbird must have wandered from the South too soon; and if you ever happen to see a Shrike and a Mocker close together, you may mistake one for the other, they look so much alike at a little distance.

Mockingbird Mi'mus polyglot'tus. 13.

Now and then there came to us like an inspiration from heaven the ecstatic music of the mockingbird, carrying shame and despair to the breasts of all the other warblers of the aerial choir.

Here we embarked on a comfortable steamer, and sailed nearly twenty-four hours down the incomparable Ocklawaha River, through scenes that are indescribably picturesque; under arches of gigantic trees covered with sombrely beautiful Spanish mosses and trumpet creeper vines, where all day long are heard the ecstatic songs of mockingbirds, and where flutter the plumages of all the colors of the rainbow.

"High the silver ibis flies Silver wings in silver skies; In the sun the Saurian lies: Comes the mockingbird and prates To the boatman at the gates Of the Ocklawaha.

The oldest girls would ride on the horses' backs, chase quails, pluck the wayside flowers, occasionally watching the flight of paroquettes flashing like diamonds through the air, listening to the mockingbirds filling the woods with their exquisite songs, and inhaling as it were the ether of the immortal Gods, the matchless, perfumed, life-giving Florida air.