He expressed the opinion that in England they would not allow me to tell the truth about Russia, and gave as an example the way in which Colonel Robins had been kept silent in America.
I should have liked to explain what was the appeal of the revolution to men like Colonel Robins and myself, both of us men far removed in origin and upbringing from the revolutionary and socialist movements in our own countries.
By the time Reddy Woodpecker came, all the Robins from over the meadow were feeling so well fed and good-natured that they were in anything but a fighting mood.
Over near the garden fence he met three plump Robins who had flown across the meadow to help him fight Reddy Woodpecker.
Immediately a chewink, a pair of vireos, and two black and white warblers joined therobins in their din.
I remember, too, that on my way through the woodlot I frightened a small flock of robins from a pine; and more than a week ago the swallows were gathering upon the telegraph wires.
And if the poor little robinsand wrens die of hunger, do you think He, who sees them fall, will hold us innocent?
The robins were singing a little, and the wrens twittering about the hawthorn berries on the bare hedges.
Those robinswill not let any of my cherries go to waste," she said.
For over an hour the three little robins went flying in all directions through the woods.
Flying so high that they could not be seen from the earth, it looked to the youngster robins as if all the birds in the world were going south for the winter.
When Robert Robin saw the big cat get wet in the old iron fountain, he told the little robins never to go near that place.
Mister Robert Robin thought that the big lake was the sea, and all the other robinsin his part of the country thought the same thing, so it was to the shore of the great lake that Robert Robin and his family went for their vacation.
When Mrs. Robin said that, all the young robins cried at once: "I want to go home!
This King Robin and his mate and their four baby robins were all the robins that there were to be found in all the deep, dark woods.
That made Mister Catbird laugh, and then he made a noise like a cat, and the littlerobins were very much surprised to see a nice-looking bird like Mister Catbird who could make a noise almost exactly like a cat.
The tired robins were glad to drink of its clear cool water which gushed out of the whitest sand.
It was a cherry pit which one of the baby robins had "popped.
All the youngster robins came hurrying at the call, except little Sheldon.
Mrs. Robin went and got the baby robins their breakfasts.
Towards night Robert Robin and Mrs. Robin coaxed the baby robins back into the big basswood tree, and all that night the four of them sat on the same limb and slept just as fine as could be.
The friendlyRobins had left the Orchard and lawn, to moult in the quiet of the woods.
I watched a pair of Robins all one day last spring, when I was sick.
Pretty soon after that the snow melted, and by April Robins were building around in our yard, in the maples by the road, and all through this orchard.
The Robins and Bluebirds soon grew discouraged, and left one by one.
At first the Robins chattered and talked for a while, looking squint-eyed at the berries, but then the bird that came on the clothes-line started down and began to eat.
The Robins acted real mad at first, because it wasn't berries, but after a while one pecked at it and told the others it was all right, and then thirty Robins all sat in a row and ate that meal up, the same as if they were chickens.
It was a terribly cold day when the Robinscame back, along in the first part of March.
But delightful as the climate is there, where it also provides a plentiful table of berries, theseRobins break away from the land of plenty and begin their northern journey before the first shad dares venture up the rivers.
I was just giving the baby robins a drink," sputtered Mary Jane, "and they didn't seem to like it!
She was so startled that she screamed and dropped the hose without a thought of the robins she had meant to help.
But how to get a drink to four baby robins in the old apple tree--that was a problem that Mary Jane couldn't figure out all at once.
I wonder you robins don’t get tired of hearing yourselves.
That man should put food outside his windows for the robins in the winter, and should take care that it was not all eaten up by sparrows.
The redwings had gone to the neighbourhood of the towns and villages, and so too had the robins and wrens, who had lived in the hedges all the winter through till now.
On our side it was agreed: “First, that the robins should abstain as far as possible from damaging man’s property, i.
It was not till she was sitting at breakfast with her aunts that she remembered it, or rather was reminded of it, by some little remark that was made about the friendly robins on the terrace walk outside.
The meadow they had found was crimsoned over with ragged-robins that in this strange light glowered angrily like rubies.
There was in this plaintive music of robins and thrushes a regret for the days of Summer spent together that were now passed away, and yet a more robust melody might have affronted the wistful air of these milk-white dawns.
JULY Guy had been conscious ever since the rose-gold evening of the ragged-robins of new elements having entered into his and Pauline's love for each other.
Why had she not brought back a few of those ragged-robins to sit like confidantes beside her bed?
Guy caught her to him; and into that kiss the fiery sky entered, so that Pauline let fall her ragged-robins and they lay limp in the grass and were trodden under foot.
And all the way back into the crimson sunset they talked still in whispers, and of those rain-drenched ragged-robins there was not one they carried home.
As compared with robins in the temperate regions, those in the Arctic Life-zone were notably less "fearless"; they came to within three feet of the nest when nestlings were being inspected by an observer.
And when the robins nest again," sighed a pensive, widowed Mrs. Lane, who taught the little girls.
Now it was morning, and wrens and robins and cat-birds all were singing.
It seemed a friend of his had stopped a pair of robins from nesting over a hammock hung under an apple tree, by nailing a stuffed cat right beside their bough.
Down through the air fell the alto sky-call of the bluebirds, and robins flocking for the night whispered greetings to each other.
The catbirds and robins and phœbe-birds that were reared far from human habitations doubtless return to such localities to rear their young.
We could never have a plague of song sparrows or bluebirds, but since the robins are now protected in the South as well as in the North, we are exposed to the danger of a plague of robins.
I have positive proof in a few instances of robins and song sparrows returning successive years to the same neighborhood.
How different from the manners of the robins are the manners of a pair of catbirds that have a nest in the honeysuckle against the side of the first-floor sleeping-porch!
The old nest appeared to be in perfect condition, but there was evidently no thought with the birds of using it again, as the robins sometimes do, and as bluebirds and cliff swallows always do.
The robins are there in force and I hope the cuckoos will join them in the destruction of the worms.
He took refuge in the spruces above the house where the collected robinsabused him from surrounding branches.
At the same time robins were flying here and there with loaded beaks, and wood thrushes were going through the air trailing long strips of white paper behind them, but the catbird was an emblem of secrecy itself.
Thus, the young of our robins have speckled breasts, betraying their thrush kinship.
A few of our birds use their wings to gain an elevation from which to deliver their songs--as the larks, and some of the finches; but the robins and the sparrows and the warblers and the woodpeckers are always going somewhere.
Then, as by magic, everything was changed, and Katy never forgot the brightness of that day when the robins sang so merrily above her head and all nature seemed to sympathize with her joy.
When they got their eyes open and began to grow more down, they were good little Robins and did exactly as they were told.
After the young Robinshad outgrown their shells and broken and thrown them off, they were naked and red and blind.
The robins would linger about for a week, or more, rather than leave a single bunch of those berries ungathered.
I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Where a little headstone stood; How the flakes were folding it gently, As didrobins the babes in the wood.
Now it so happened that Mr Robins was in the vestry when the christening party came in to give the particulars about the babies to be entered in the register.
Mr Robins often discovered her in tears, and she was constantly going out for hours at a time, having always hitherto been almost too much of a stay-at-home.
Mr Robins went home slowly across the fields in a curiously softened frame of mind.
So they made no remark, and Mr Robins laid the baby, still asleep, in Bill's arms, and went away.
But then he was not surprised, for everybody knows how carelessRobins are.
When the Robins opened their round eyes, they chirped cheerfully to each other and put on their waterproofs.
She told them to go back; that the Robins couldn't hurt them, and that she was ashamed to have them act so Chicken-hearted.
The Robins would be there then, and if they kept on eating Worms at this rate, they would be growing plump and juicy all the time.
He had stayed in the house so long that he was tired of it, and he was also watching a pair of Robins who had built a nest on one of the up-stairs window-ledges.
The young Robins were dreadfully frightened, but having feathers all over their face, it did not really show.
You know, if you can keep other people from finding out that you are scared, you may end by scaring them, and that was exactly what the Robins meant to do.
You can imagine how excited the young Robins were then.
The father and mother left the young Robins in safe places while they went to hunt Worms in the newly hoed garden.
As the shadows lengthened and the robins became tuneful, Holcroft said, "You've done well, Jane.
Migratory robins were feeding in the orchard, whistling and calling their noisy congratulations on arriving at old haunts.
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