I think if we were without you, we should begin to miss you." "Just as you would the cuckoos, if they were all converted into barn-door fowls.

I tell you what, brother; frequently, as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time, and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character.

Everybody speaks ill of us both, and everybody is glad to see both of us again." "Yes, Jasper, but there is some difference between men and cuckoos; men have souls, Jasper!" "And why not cuckoos, brother ?" "You should not talk so, Jasper; what you say is little short of blasphemy.

How should a bird have a soul ?" "And how should a man ?" "Oh, we know very well that a man has a soul." "How do you know it ?" "We know very well." "Would you take your oath of it, brother--your bodily oath ?" "Why, I think I might, Jasper!" "Did you ever see the soul, brother ?" "No, I never saw it." "Then how could you swear to it?
A pretty figure you would make in a court of justice, to swear to a thing which you never saw.

Hold up your head, fellow.