"Catbird" Quotes from Famous Books
... and in unison, earth waxed greener; then in descending scale, both together waned. Migratory wings fluttering at night, and passing voices calling in the darkness—most lonely sounds of earth—gave place to singers of the day. The robin, the meadow-lark, the ubiquitous catbird, all born of prairie and of summer, came and went. Blackbirds in countless flocks followed. Again the calling of prairie-chickens was heard at eve and morning, and anon frost glistened ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... not gone before Jasper Jay had four callers. There was Bobbie Bobolink, Jolly Robin, Miss Kitty Catbird and Buddy Brown-Thrasher. ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — The Tale of Jasper Jay - Tuck-Me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey |