Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 91
kof making love with such a gulp as that! Often, as a boy, I have stood on the longslope above the marsh in spring, and wonderedwhat that mysterioussound might be. Itseemed to come fromeverywhere—from no-where in particular.For the bittern is agreat ventriloquist.Perhaps the art ofventriloquism was… … BITTERN. That awkward, long-necked, long-legged bird, the bittern. league rubber boots, and could wade fasterthan the wind travels over the marsh. Another mysterious sound of the spring isthat wild, mocking, crazy laugh that floats upfrom mountain lakes soon after the ice hasgone out. It is not…
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