. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . rt ofa clown. He ruffles his feathers, stretches his necklike a cat with a fishbone in her throat, and with amost tremendous effort delivers a series of henlikesquawks double fortissimo, thus:What he means by the callit is difficult to say, unless it has 4+^- some connection with the general caucus which 86 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. is sure to be in full session at no great distance downin the copse on the meadowborder. But the crow is not unmusical after caw is a noteof decisive emphasiswhich ca
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . rt ofa clown. He ruffles his feathers, stretches his necklike a cat with a fishbone in her throat, and with amost tremendous effort delivers a series of henlikesquawks double fortissimo, thus:What he means by the callit is difficult to say, unless it has 4+^- some connection with the general caucus which 86 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. is sure to be in full session at no great distance downin the copse on the meadowborder. But the crow is not unmusical after caw is a noteof decisive emphasiswhich can not be justlyslighted in the grandorchestra of Nature. Thetone of it has that wood-en, reedlike quality whichbest represented by the oboe,an instrument of a singularly pastoralnature. Haydn fully appreciated thisfact, and in his oratorio of The Seasonsgave it a very prominent position notonly in a fine adagio, but in a longThe musical Crow, solo imitating the crowing of a how nicely the notes followby sliding down thechromatic scale. Here is a case 3£=H3Q2^2:. the last part of the crow £ *rtt^7 & where a greatmusician followed the suggestion of Nature veryclosely; and I could enumerate several others inwhich Natures intention was most admirably carriedout. However, I can only record one extreme in-stance, which is as pathetic as it is interesting; and
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