"Mockingbird" Quotes from Famous Books
... till ended day, when he went home, with a heart to fire a prey. But the Jew abode pondering the grace and the comeliness of him; and, as soon as it was night, his wife according to custom served him with supper and they seated themselves before it. Now he had a mockingbird which was wont, whenever he sat down to meat, to come and eat with him and hover over his head; but in his absence the fowl was grown familiar with Masrur and used to flutter about him as he sat at meals. Now when Masrur disappeared and the master returned, it ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton |