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Identifier: cu31924000167100 (find matches)
Title: A year with the birds
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ball, Alice Eliza, 1867- Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce), 1869-1948. illus
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York City, Gibbs & Van Vleck
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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are crisp and clear,I share the bounty Ive helped to gain; The. Vests.«^har-> \here! A. E. B. 76 The Kingfisher 77 The Kingfisher By a wooded stream or a clear cool pond, Or the shores of a shining lake,A watchful sentinel silently stands. When the rippling waters break.And reveal a glistening fin or scale, This blue-coat dashes in,With his watchmans rattle sounding loud; He makes a frightful din! With the sword that he wears in his plumed cap, He smites his writhing prey;If tiny, he swallows the fish head-first; If large, he bears it awayAnd beats it to death on the bough of a tree; Then back to the bank he will go.Where his children eagerly wait for him. In their famous long Ejng-row. His rattle he sounds as he nears his home— Their baby rattles respond;To enter, he crowds the one in front Till it pushes the others beyond.Now backward they run through the tunneled clay That their parents hollowed out.Where they quarrel and tease and bite and gorge, And pull the fish about. 78
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If a blustering storm piles high the waves,Or streams are sullied with mud, Without fish-dinners these children must go.Though frogs may be caught near the flood. For lizards and moUusks the parents then search-Grasshoppers and crickets are found; And they hasten away to southern climes.When waters become ice-bound, A. E. B. ♦Note.—Bird in foreground, the male; in background, with chestnutbands, the female. 79 The Legend of The Kingfisher Bold ^olus was king of the winds, And he dwelt on a wondrous isle;His palace rose high from a rocky cliff— Twas visible many a mile. Old Neptune knew when the Winds sons played, And when they quarreled, too;For when rude Boreas rode from the North, He blew and blew and blew! The gentle Zephyrus sprang from the West; From the East young Eurus came.While Notus hailed from the South—and oft They played a riotous game. Their sister, fair Halcyone, Wed Ceyx, a prince, who sailedOn a voyage long, when ^Eolus And Boreas howled and wailed. His wife k

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