Word: mockingbirds
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...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...
...silent scene that is broken by two meaningful words: "I'm ready." It is in the three tense worried faces reflected in the windshield of the jaloppy as the family crosses the weird desert at night. Above all, it is in the ironically recurring song of the mockingbird, heard in the distance as the family first sights California's orchards...
...edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
...always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front. Far from being a funny story (except perhaps to those who visit asylums to get a good laugh...
...chickadee resolution came up. Senator George McNeill of Fayetteville trooped over to the State museum, brought back a stuffed chickadee to enlighten his urban colleagues. Senator Capus Waynick, editor of the High Point Enterprise, listened to Senator Hill's imitative calls, rose up to declare that the Carolina mockingbird was a better singer. In the House someone told Salisbury's veteran Representative Walter Pete Murphy that the chickadee eats insects. "For God's sake," cried he, "don't turn the chickadee loose on this House...