The Odd Farmhouse

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His wife, too, is a feathered suffragette, who asserts the rights of her sex, and, emancipated from maternal cares and domestic life, adopts 1 82 THE ODD FARMHOUSE the community system. Having something better to do than sit on eggs all day, she deputizes this duty.
The cuckoo is no poet : he has no passion, no imagination, no invention. His utterance is limited to one monotonous and mechanical phrase. The clock that is his mimic has called our attention to that. You almost detect the burr-r-r
...of the released spring in his throat. To some his song is damnable iteration, but the monotony is redeemed by his inveterate restlessness flitting from copse to copse, from hill to hill, the moving voice calls us now here, now there. No other bird has a note so human no, not human, ele- mental the voice of hills and dales, the voice of the mocking nymph, the voice of spring playing at hide-and-seek through all the woods.
How the cuckoo captured the fancy of the Elizabethans ! For Shakespeare he was the herald of spring, and he turns up again and again, furnishing the refrain, " Sing, Cuckoo !


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