There were birds and squirrels everywhere!
I actually saw a sky-blue bird with a topknot, and another of a
bright scarlet color, and gorgeous woodpeckers who were too busy
hammering to look at me even. Oh, but they did not sing like the
birds in Germany! All were very grave and sad. They seemed to know,
as everybody else did, that I was a stranger in their land, for they
gave me all sorts of useful Information and advice, with many nods of
their little heads.
"Peep, peep!" counseled the bluebird. "Thank you," I replied, "seeing
is believing." "Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will," cried a large,
spotted bird. "That," thought I, "is a prize fighter." "Cheat,
cheat!" urged a pious-looking cardinal, who evidently mistook me for
a gambler. "Don't," roared a bullfrog, who was seated on a log and
winked his eye at me. "There is an honest man," I thought. "Shake,
good sir." In consternation and surprise, I instantly released his
hand. "HOW is it possible to be both honest and slippery at the same
time! This must be a Yankee-man," thought I. I saw real moss, green
and velvety as the richest carpet, and I drank of singing, bubbling
waters. Many kinds of berries and nuts, hard to crack, grew in the
wild glens of the forest.
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