Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 349
38.) oclock one morning, in the bottom of a dug-out canoe, a sound from the depths of the forestsuch as I had never before heard issue from throatof beast or man. It was a resounding, deepbass, a cross between a guttural roar and a song, It was a wont-go-home-till-moming concert,a regular song, in… … tree, and, being outexpressly for speci-mens, we opened fireand killed five ofthem. Two fell, butthe three otherswrapped their tailstightly around thebranches, died, andstill held on. Andthere they continuedto hang by the in-voluntary tension ofthose tails until myfriend Jackson pluck-ily climbed…
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