Thoughts for The Times
About Bhid Life
Birds are responsible for a, great deal. Music was born among the leafy trees. The aeroplanes is an imitation . of the bird. Their relation to human | life has always been close. Thousands of rhymes and legends say so. The romantic facts accumulated by modern observers make the place of the bird in human affection secure. Now there is . a bird, and an ungainly bird, which has : intruded into the nursery language of 1 the world. That bird is the duck. No poet 17 is wasted on the duck; nor does I the duck compete with the songsters of I the feathered nice. Yet of all birds ■i the duck is the antitype of the human , I child. Everybody’s child is a duck. ’ i —From “A Bird Fantasy.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1922, Page 2
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134Thoughts for The Times Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1922, Page 2
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