He said if I sold you my land, you'd put up a nigger school and bring in so many blackbirds you'd run me clean off my farm.

Near the ranch-house, walking familiarly among the cattle, we saw the big, deep-billed Ani blackbirds.

" He slipped like a monkey up into a tree, He shook her down cherries like rain; "See now," says he, cheeping, "a blackbird I be, Laugh, laugh, little Jinnie, againgaingain, Laugh, laugh, little Jinnie, again.

"What good child is this," the angel said, "That, with happy heart, beside her bed Prays so lovingly?" Low and soft, oh! very low and soft, Crooned the blackbird in the orchard croft, "Bell, dear Bell!" crooned he.

There were urchins there, scarce two feet high, with round bullets of bodies and short spindle-shanks, who could knock blackbirds off the trees at every shot, and cut the heads off the taller flowers with perfect certainty!

As for Giles o' the Bow, he chirrupped merrily to the ass, and whistled full melodiously, mocking a blackbird that piped amid the green.

So Turner, if he were to paint a blackbird, it would be so like a canary when it was finished, you would not know one from the other.

Seated beneath the rocks, what does Little Bell ask the blackbird to do? Read the lines that describe the blackbird's song.

And as I looked out of the window and watched the vulgar blackbirds, with toes turned in, boring out their worms, I realized sharply that even they, as indeed everything large and small in the house and grounds, shared this strangeness, and were twisted out of normal appearance because of it.

Leaning forward in his chair he reproduced the two white cats from behind him, put the kittens back in their box, caught the blackbird and caged it, and was carefully winding up the hairspring in the white butterfly, when again he fancied that somebody was knocking.