Outing . the season and thenext year as well, and so on through all theyears since. And it took some little investi-gation on our part to discover the the men had cut and trimmed thatpole, they had made a long sliver of wood,split down from the top. This had beenthere when the pole was raised and wasthere yet. Quite by accident, no doubt,the bird had discovered that when he saton that sliver and drummed it acted asa sort of sounding board to the harpwhich the wires running out in everydirection formed, and made his tune lastthe longer and sound so much sweeter tohis ear. That the w
Outing . the season and thenext year as well, and so on through all theyears since. And it took some little investi-gation on our part to discover the the men had cut and trimmed thatpole, they had made a long sliver of wood,split down from the top. This had beenthere when the pole was raised and wasthere yet. Quite by accident, no doubt,the bird had discovered that when he saton that sliver and drummed it acted asa sort of sounding board to the harpwhich the wires running out in everydirection formed, and made his tune lastthe longer and sound so much sweeter tohis ear. That the woodpecker loves the music ofhis thrumming, no one who knows the birdcan doubt; and I am sure that this par-ticular little fellow had a really artistic a time he got so that he was notdisturbed if we went to the door andwatched him as he performed his matutinalmarches and rounds and hot-footed should be sorry to miss him now and wedo all we can to encourage our little friendto come
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