[Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookLaddie CHAPTER XV 12/37
"Proceed!" "'Then the farmer boy at noon, rests beneath the shade, Listening to the ceaseless tune that's thrilling through the glade. Long and loud the harvest fly winds his bugle round, Long, and loud, and shrill, and high, he whistles back the sound.'" "He does! He does indeed! I haven't a doubt about that!" cried the Princess.
"'Long, and loud, and shrill, and high,' he whistles over and over the sound, until it becomes maddening.
Is that all of that melodious, entrancing production ?" "No, evening comes yet.
The last verse goes this way: "'When the busy day's employ, ends at dewy eve, Then the happy farmer boy, doth haste his work to leave, Trudging down the quiet lane, climbing o'er the hill, Whistling back the changeless wail, of plaintive whip-poor-will,'-- and then you do the chorus again, and if you know how well enough you whistle in, 'whip-poor-will,' 'til the birds will answer you.
Laddie often makes them." "My life!" cried the Princess.
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