Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 91
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… … THE RUFFED GROUSE STANDS ERECT ON SOAIE LOG, AND BEATS HIS WINGSAGAINST HIS SIDES. 648 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 649 lands, but the girls and boys who live in thehill country know this sound of the loonslaugh—one of the strangest, saddest sounds innature, so like a human laugh, and yet…
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