Word: birding
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...explains, knows what his own voice sounds like, since it comes to him through the bones of his head. Many a Yardling will find to his chagrin that his voice is not the deep, masculine thing he thinks it is, but more like the chirp of some flutey little bird in one of the Yard elms...
...Nobody knows why some muscles show miscroscopic changes, perhaps resulting from aging, while others do not. "You can't tell a spring chicken from an old fowl by examination of muscle tissue." A better way is to cook the bird and carve...
Fidelity. In Medford, Ore., a hunter found his missing bird dogs in the parlor, pointing...
...strolling so far from the madding crowd of bewildered registrants, calmly explained that he was just waiting till he was sure they were definitely in the institution before he pulled that line about giving them unlimited credit till June of their Senior year. "You may be an early bird," he beamed "but I prefer to be a smart worm...
...smallest and lowest creatures, the insects and worms, everything that crawled and writhed humbly and flatly on the ground." The worms went on about their business while the shells exploded (they are, as Darwin learned, quite deaf), the bees hummed, and now and then, between explosions, a bird sang. "It sometimes seemed that we were already in our graves, half alive and half dead: and most curiously, the whistling shells meant life and the buzzing bees and singing birds meant death...