What Birds Have Done With Me
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III MOTHERLESS BABIES Adolph Buzze was a Canadian wood-chopper, the only one left of a gang of his country-men who had helped denude the township, where the small boy lived, of the primeval forest; all the rest had drifted north and westward on the skirmish line of advancing settlement. To the small boy, Adolph became a guide, philosopher, and friend, and to him, he owed all his boyish knowledge of wood-craft. Born in the woods, always living in the woods, with eyes of wonder for every thing passing about him, his knowledge of wood- folks and wood-land ways was remarkable; now add to this, wonderful gaity, cheerfulness and perpetual laughter, and you have a personality calculated to take captive the heart of a child. His limited knowledge of English, added to, rather than detracted from, the charm
...of his conversation. Here are a few examples. Pointing to the criss-crossing of all manner of wild animal tracks in the snow, he would say at the end of a ripple and laughter: "Now, watch ze me read primer book in right tune," and he would unravel the tangle. Again, pointing to where a fox had made a long leap; "He say Adolph go buy more long leg." A duck's track would call forth this, or something like it; "When I try fly, fool like duck walk." What he did not know about every living thing in the wilderness, the small boy did not think worth knowing. He was always eager to initiate his pupil into new mysteries,?even to the eating of a rye-bread sandwich, with frozen ants between the slices,?followed with shouts of laughter that woke the echoes, when he got a glimpse of the small boy's face, after swallowing the first mouthful. How can I convey any adequate idea of the perpetual delight of Adolph's cabin, dug into a sharp southern slope, with only two logs and the slo...
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