. Bird-land echoes; . I f 11. Night-heron. By Mill-Pond and Meadow. 163 fore I went made a willow whistle that could out-screech a whole railroad. I saw they made forwhere the quoks and little cranes * Herons ; not cranes. Well, herons, then, and I suspected. they meantto shoot some. The pond-bank is in and out upthere, you know, and I kept in shadow, and whenI thought about right, I gave a blow on the heron, big and little, rose up, and such aclatter! I heard one of the fellows say, * Shoot!but he didnt, and I gave another screech that madeeverything rattle, and first I knew, th
. Bird-land echoes; . I f 11. Night-heron. By Mill-Pond and Meadow. 163 fore I went made a willow whistle that could out-screech a whole railroad. I saw they made forwhere the quoks and little cranes * Herons ; not cranes. Well, herons, then, and I suspected. they meantto shoot some. The pond-bank is in and out upthere, you know, and I kept in shadow, and whenI thought about right, I gave a blow on the heron, big and little, rose up, and such aclatter! I heard one of the fellows say, * Shoot!but he didnt, and I gave another screech that madeeverything rattle, and first I knew, those fellows wasa-scuddin down the middle of the pond like light-nin. I kept a-blowin, only soft-like, on the thing,and followed kind o close. They thought they waschased and went on like mad. I was ashore, nearby em, most as soon as they was, and, slinkinround by the back way, met em while they wasstandin under the shed, gettin their horse, andevery one, so far as I could make out, was in a deadtremble. They didnt so much as
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