A Traveller In Little Things, By W. H. Hudson



















































































































 -  I questioned him about the birds of
the district; he stoutly maintained that he recognised only four, and
proceeded to - Page 69
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I Questioned Him About The Birds Of The District; He Stoutly Maintained That He Recognised Only Four, And Proceeded To Name Them.

"Here is another," said I, "a fifth you didn't name, singing in the bushes half a dozen yards from where we stand - the best singer of all."

"I did name it," he returned, "that's a thrush."

It was a nightingale, a bird he did not know. But he knew a thrush - it was one of the four birds he knew, and he stuck to it that it was a thrush singing. Afterwards he pointed out the squalid-looking cottage he lived in. It was on the estate of a great lady.

"Tell me," I said, "is she much liked on the estate?"

He pondered the question for a few moments, then replied, "Some likes her and some don't," and not a word more would he say on that subject. A curious amalgam of stupidity and shrewdness; a bad observer of bird- life, but a cautious little person in answering leading questions; he was evidently growing up (or not doing so) in the wrong place.

Going out for a stroll in the evening, I came to a spot where two small cottages stood on one side of the road, and a large pond fringed with rushes and a coppice on the other. Just by the cottage five boys were amusing themselves by throwing stones at a mark, talking, laughing and shouting at their play. Not many yards from the noisy boys some fowls were picking about on the turf close to the pond; presently out of the rushes came a moorhen and joined them.

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