Roof and meadow (1904) (14563238028)

Identifier: roofmeadow00shar (find matches)
Title: Roof and meadow
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-1929
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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e Century Co. Copyright, 1902, 1903, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Copyright, 1903, by The Chapple Publishing Co. (Ltd.). Copyright, 1902, 1903, by W. W. Potter Co. (Ltd.). Copyright, 1902, 1903, by Perey Mason Company. Ptcblished April, 190U. • ..:/;*•.» ;•* ;*,•».• ;», TO MY MOTHER COISTTENTS PAGE Birds from a City Roof .... 1The Hunting of the Woodchuck . . 19Three Sermons 31 45 77 91 107 121 The Marsh Calico and the Kittens The Sparrow Roost . Racoon Creek .The Dragon of the Swale . . . 147Tickle-birds and the Coccinellid^ . 161The Crazy Flicker ..... 177Some Friendly Birds . . , .187The Longest Way Round . . . 199One Flew East and One Flew West 213 Chickaree . 231 Bird Friendships 251 Farm-yard Studies 261 I wish to thank the editors of St. Nicholas, the NationalMagazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Youths Com-panion for allowing me to reprint here the chapters of Roofand Meadow that first appeared in their pages. Dallas Lore Sharp. (vii) BIEDS FROM A CITY ROOF
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KOOF A:NrD MEADOW BIEDS FEOM A CITY KOOF I LAID down my book and listened. It wasonly the choking gurgle of a broken rain-pipe outside : then it was the ripple and swishof a meadow stream. To make out the voices ofredwings and marsh-wrens in the rasping notesof the city sparrows behind the shutter required(3) much more imagiuatiou. But I did it. I wantedto hear, and the splash of the water helped me. The sounds of wind and water are the sameeverywhere. Here at the heart of the city Ican forget the tarry pebbles and painted tinwhenever my rain-pipes are flooded. I cannever be wholly shut away from the open coun-try and the trees so long as the winds drawhard down the alley past my window. But I have more than a window and a brokenrain-pipe. Along with my five flights goes apiece of roof, flat, with a wooden floor, a fence,and a million acres of sky. I could nt possiblyuse another acre of sky, except along the east-ern horizon, where the top floors of some twelve-story buildings interce