Don't Talk To ME - I
Know Too Much About This Thing; In The One Little Particular
Of Scolding - Just Good, Clean, Out-And-Out Scolding
- A Bluejay Can Lay Over Anything, Human Or Divine.
Yes, Sir, A Jay Is Everything That A Man Is.
A jay can cry,
a jay can laugh, a jay can feel shame, a jay can reason
and plan
And discuss, a jay likes gossip and scandal,
a jay has got a sense of humor, a jay knows when he is
an ass just as well as you do - maybe better. If a jay
ain't human, he better take in his sign, that's all.
Now I'm going to tell you a perfectly true fact about
some bluejays."
CHAPTER III
Baker's Bluejay Yarn
[What Stumped the Blue Jays]
"When I first begun to understand jay language correctly,
there was a little incident happened here. Seven years ago,
the last man in this region but me moved away. There stands
his house - been empty ever since; a log house, with a plank
roof - just one big room, and no more; no ceiling - nothing
between the rafters and the floor. Well, one Sunday
morning I was sitting out here in front of my cabin,
with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills,
and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees,
and thinking of the home away yonder in the states,
that I hadn't heard from in thirteen years, when a bluejay
lit on that house, with an acorn in his mouth, and says,
'Hello, I reckon I've struck something.' When he spoke,
the acorn dropped out of his mouth and rolled down the roof,
of course, but he didn't care; his mind was all on the
thing he had struck.
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