Grass and flowers Quiet treads, On the meads, and mountain-heads, Along with Pleasure, close allied, Ever by each other's side: And often, by the murmuring rill, Hears the thrush, while all is still, Within the groves of Grongar Hill.

Who makes fun of me?" asked the thrush, and tried to catch a glimpse of the one who called.

He said, and downward flew from off the beam; For daylight now began apace to spring, The thrush to whistle, and the lark to sing; Then, crowing, clapp'd his wings, the appointed call, To chuck his wives together in the hall.

These follicles, or little glands, then, becoming enlarged, and filled with a congealed fluid, constitute thrush in its first stage; and when the child's lips and mouth appear a mass of small pearls, then, as these break and discharge, the second stage, or that of ulceration, sets in. 2527.

The pretty name of Azalea means something definite; but its rural name of Honeysuckle confounds under that name flowers without even an external resemblance,Azalea, Diervilla, Lonioera, Aquilegia,just as every bird which sings loud in deep woods is popularly denominated a thrush.

I am walking down the church-yard path, the bells jangling gayly above my head, drowning the sweet thrushes; and the school-children flinging bountiful garden flowers before my feet.

He had heard Mrs. Wingfold sing many a time, and she could no more bring out a note like one of those she was daring to criticise, than a cat could emulate a thrush!

With the quiet dignity peculiar to her, she passed up the garden path, leaving the thrush still singing, singing, singing, behind her.

RICHARD JAGO FROM THE GOLDFINCHES All in a garden, on a currant bush, With wondrous art they built their airy seat; In the next orchard lived a friendly thrush Nor distant far a woodlark's soft retreat. Here blessed with ease, and in each other blessed, With early songs they waked the neighbouring groves, Till time matured their joys, and crowned their nest With infant pledges of their faithful loves.

Down on the ground near the drinking water you should place the birds' food, which usually consists of little balls of a paste made out of figs and corn meal: but for twenty days before you intend to market your thrushes it is customary to feed them more heavily, both by giving them more food and that chiefly of finer meal.

" My walk under the pines would lose half its summer charm were I to miss that shy anchorite, the Wilson's thrush, nor hear in haying time the metallic ring of his song, that justifies his rustic name of scythe-whet.

I pulled four young thrushes, a tiny rabbit, and two young water-rats out of this hole, and re-buried them.

Besides him I recall one hermit thrush, a few cedar-birds, a house wren, chattering at a great rate among the "bootjacks" (leaf-stalks) of an overturned palmetto-tree, with an occasional mocking-bird, cardinal grosbeak, prairie warbler, yellow redpoll, myrtle bird, ruby-crowned kinglet, phoebe, and flicker.

He will note that they rival the song-thrush in magnitude and the Bengal tiger in ferocity.

I crept along so softly, that I did not scare a single thrush by the road.

At this camp he shot an interesting little ant-thrush.

In a high, dark forest sat the thrush himself with drooping wings and swelling throat, and struck up tune after tune.

On the other hand, an ill-developed frog, one wasted by long-continued and spreading thrush, or one robbed of its normal function by excessive paring in the forge, is a common starting-point of the condition we are considering.

" "Well," I continued, "in that villa there is an aviary from which I know that there were taken in one season five thousand thrushes, which, at three deniers apiece, means that that department of the establishment brought in a revenue of sixty thousand sesterces that year, or twice the yield of the entire two hundred jugera of your farm at Reate.

Who taught the American thrush to sing like his European relative?

"For this purpose is built a dome, in the form of a peristyle, with a roof over it and enclosed with netting, sufficiently large to accommodate several thousand thrushes and blackbirds; indeed, some also include other kinds of birds, such as ortolans and quail, which sell for a good price when fat.

They deal with men As, far across the mountains, in the south, Men trap a singing thrush, put out his eyes, And cage him up and bid him then to sing Sing before God that made him,yes, to sing!