{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3952", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass. wU _W.G G\\nBook ,L- /v\\nCO\\npyre", "height": "3956", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3956", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3944", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "2Jt\u00c2\u00b1\\n7/1*\\nBob\\nThe Story of Our Mocking-Bird", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE STORY of OUR\\nMOCKING-BIRD. By\\nSidney Lanier. With Six-\\nteen Illustrations in Color\\nCharles Scribner s Sons\\nNew York, Mdcccxcix", "height": "3976", "width": "2520", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1883, by ^The Independent\\nCopyright, 1899, by Mary Day Lanier\\nQLfc7\\nL1.Z\\nM\\not\\nC", "height": "3984", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Prefatory Note\\nHE poet Sidney Lanier loved to swing in\\nfull-muscled walks through the fields and\\nwoods; to take the biggest how and quiver\\nout of the archery implements provided for\\nhimself and his brood of boys, and with them trail-\\ning at his heels, to tramp and shoot at rovers; to be-\\nstride a springy horse and ride through the mountains\\nand the valleys, noting what they were pleased to\\nshow of tree and bird and beast life. He could feel\\nthe honest savage instincl of the hunter (and lose it\\nin his first sight of a stag s death-eyes J. A rare\\nbird s nest with eggs produced in him the rapture\\nvouchsafed to barbarian Boy, along with the divine\\nsuggestions vouchsafed to the Poet. This may be\\nworth while to say to those of Lanier s readers who\\nmay think of him as a sensitive, delicate man of\\nletters, and who must see in most of his writing\\nevidences of extreme sensibility. It was this habit of\\na practical, face-to-face conversation with nature\\nwhich, joined with the artist s instincl, makes the", "height": "3984", "width": "2556", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "sketch of Bob so veracious a picture of a bird-indi-\\nvidual and a bird-species. Lanier s wife and chil-\\ndren remember well the delight the bird had for his\\nbrother artist; how the amused flute would trill with\\nextravagant graces to the silent but heedful wonder\\nof the caged one. Every surprising token of intelli-\\ngence, of affection, of valor displayed by Bob was\\nhailed by Mr. Lanier with a bofs ecstacy over a\\npet, and a poet s thankfulness of a beautiful work\\nof the Creator.\\nThere is, doubtless, no need to assure the reader\\nthat the events of Bob s life as hereinafter depitled\\nare historically true; he was acquired by one of the\\npoefs boys, who, forbidden to rob nests, remembers\\nhis fear, on the way home with Bob in his straw hat,\\nthat the account of the bird s helpless condition would\\nnot serve as a fair and reasonable excuse for keep-\\ning him as a pet.\\nThe illustrations which form so important a part\\nof the effort to make a picture of Bob, are unusual\\nin their origin and in their method. Mr. Dugmore\\nmade photographic studies of a young mocking-bird,", "height": "3984", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "or, rather, of a number of young mocking-birds, the\\nphotographs were colored by him, and the plates\\nfrom these photographs were printed in color. The\\nvariety of rare tints in any bird s plumage, their\\nextreme delicacy, and the infinitely fine gradations\\nof shading have almost always baffled the artist\\nand the printer. The present attempt to reproduce\\nMr. Dugmore s masterly piclures in color shows at\\nleast a handsome advance in the difficult art.\\nCharles Day Lanier.\\nOtlober, 1899.", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2688", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "List of Illustrations\\nFrom Photographs made froin Life\\nand colored hy A. R. Dug more\\nBoh lying in a lump To face page 4\\nTo increase the volume of his rudimentary\\nfeathers 8\\nThrow his head hack and open his yellow-\\nlined heak 10\\nHe scramhled to the hars of the cage which\\nhis feehle companion was unahle to do 14\\nFor it was his own image in the looking-\\nglass of a bureau 28\\nHis hath 30\\nWhen he smoothed his feathers 32\\nAnd as many times slid down the smooth\\nsurface of the ?nirror and wounded himself\\nupon the perilous pin-cushion 34\\nThe most elegant, trim little dandy 38\\nA sidelong, inquiring posture of the head,\\nIs she gone? 40", "height": "3980", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "He eats very often 42\\nBoh never neglecls to wipe his heak after\\neach meal 44\\nHe stretches his body until he seems incredi-\\nbly tall 50\\nWhen he is cold he makes himself into a\\nround hall of feathers 52\\nWhen his feathers fall. He is then unspeak-\\nably dejetled. every feather dropped\\nfrom his tail 56\\nWe have only to set Bob s cage where a spot\\nof sunshine will fall on it. up goes his\\nbeak, and he is off 58", "height": "3984", "width": "2676", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "BOB", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "f\\nThe Mocking-Bird\\nSuperb and sole, upon a plumed spray\\nThat o er the general leafage boldly grew,\\nHe sumtrfd the woods in song; or typic drew\\nThe watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay\\nOf languid doves when long their lovers stray,\\nAnd all birds passion-plays that sprinkle dew\\nAt morn in brake or bosky avenue.\\nWhatever birds did or dreamed, this bird could say.\\nThen down he shot, bounced airily along\\nThe sward, twitched in a grasshopper, made song\\nMidflight, perched, prinked, and to his art again.\\nSweet Science, this large riddle read me plain:\\nHow may the death of that dull insecl be\\nThe life of yon trim Shakspere on the tree", "height": "3984", "width": "2596", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "BOB\\nOT that his\\nname ought\\nto be Bob at all.\\nIn respedt of his behavior\\nduring a certain trying pe-\\nriod which I am presently\\nto recount, he ought to be\\ncalled Sir Philip Sidney:\\nyet, by virtue of his con-\\nduSl in another very trou-\\ni", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "QB blesome business which I\\nwill relate, he has equal\\nclaim to he known as Don\\nQuixote de la Mancha\\nwhile, in consideration that\\nhe is the Voice of his whole\\nrace, singing the passions\\nof all his fellows better\\nthan any one could sing\\nhis own, he is clearly en-\\ntitled to be named Wil-\\nliam Shaksfiere.\\nFor Bob is our mocki?ig-", "height": "4004", "width": "2684", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "bird. He Jell to us out of\\nthe top of a certain great\\npine in a certain small city\\non the sea-coast of Georgia.\\nIn this tree and a host of\\nhis lordly fellows which\\ntower over that little city,\\nthe mocking-birds abound\\nin unusual numbers. They\\nlove the prodigious masses\\nof the leaves, and the gen-\\nerous breezes from the\\nneighboring Gulf Stream,\\nOB\\n3", "height": "3980", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HHHh\\ny#\\n1 E s\\nt r\\n5", "height": "3984", "width": "2500", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2640", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2484", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "OB\\nsions were held. He could\\nnot be put back into a tree:\\nthe hawks would have had\\nhim in an hour. The origi-\\nnal nest was not tobejbund.\\nJVe struggled hard against\\ncommitting the crime as\\nwe had always considered\\nit of caging a bird. But\\nfinally it became plain that\\nthere was no other resource.\\nInfaSiy we were obliged to\\nrecognize that he had come\\n3", "height": "3984", "width": "2616", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2616", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "spoiled child. JVhen it was\\nbrought, he would throw\\nhis head back and open\\nhis yellow-lined beak to a\\nwidth which no one would\\ncredit who did not see it.\\nInto this enormous cavity,\\nwhichseemed almost larger\\nthan the bird, his protec-\\ntress would thrust and\\nthe more vigorously the bet-\\nter he seemed to like it\\nball after ball of the yolk\\nOB\\n9", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "OB\\nof hard-boiled egg mashed\\nup with Irish potato.\\nHow y from this dry com-\\npound which was his only\\nfare except an occasional\\nworm off the rose-bushes y\\nBob could have wrought\\nthe surprising nobleness of\\nspirit which he displayed\\nabout six weeks after he\\ncame to us is a matter\\nwhich I do not believe the\\nmost expansive application\\n10", "height": "3984", "width": "2596", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4000", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3980", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "of Mr. Herbert Spencer s\\ntheory of the genesis of\\nemotion could even remote-\\nly account for. I refer to\\nthe occasion when hef airly\\nearned the title of Sir Philip\\nSidney. A short time after\\nhe became our guest a cou-\\nple of other Jledgelings\\nwere brought and placed\\nin his cage. One of these\\nsoon died, but the other con-\\ntinued for some time longer\\nOB", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "q B to drag out a drooping ex-\\nistence. One day, when Bob\\nwas about six weeks old,\\nhis usual ration had been\\ndelayed, owing to the pres-\\nsure of other dutiesupon his\\nattendant. He was not slow\\nto make this circumstance\\nknown by all the language\\navailable to him. He was\\nvery hungry indeed and\\nwas squealing with every\\nappearance of entreaty and", "height": "3984", "width": "2640", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "of indignation when at last\\nthe lady of the house was\\nable to bring him his break-\\nfast. He scrambled to the\\nbars of the cage which\\nhis feeble companion was\\nunable to do took the prof-\\nfered ball of egg-and-po-\\ntatqfercely in his beak, and\\nthen, instead of swallowing\\nit, deliberately Jlappedback\\nto his sick guest in the cor-\\nner and gave him the whole\\nOB\\nn", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4004", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2624", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "cup, he ordered that it\\nshould be handed to the\\nsoldier, saying, cc His ne-\\ncessity is greater than\\nmine\\n55\\nOB", "height": "3984", "width": "2552", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Mocking bird\\nis called Bob\\njust as a goat\\nis called Billy or Nan, as\\na parrot is called Poll, as\\na squirrel is called Bunny,\\nor as a cat is called Pussy\\nor Tom. In spite of the\\nsuggestions forced upon us\\nby the similarity of his be-\\nhavior to that of the sweet\\nyoung gentleman of Zut-\\nphen, our bird continued\\n16", "height": "3984", "width": "2608", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "to bear the common appel-\\nlation of his race and no\\nefforts on the part of those\\nwho believe in the Jitness\\nof things have availed to\\nchange the habits of Bob s\\nfriends in this particular.\\nBob he was, is, and will\\nprobably remain.\\nPerhaps under a weight-\\nier title he would not have\\nthriven so prosperously.\\nHis growth was amazing\\nOB\\n17", "height": "3984", "width": "2528", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "OB in body and in mind. By\\nthe time he was two months\\nold he clearly showed that\\nhe was going to be a singer.\\nAbout this period certain\\nlittle feeble trills and ex-\\nperimental whistles began\\nto vary the monotony of his\\nabsurd squeals and chir-\\nrups. The musical busi-\\nness^ and the marvellous\\nwork of feathering him-\\nself occupied his thoughts\\n18", "height": "3984", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "continually. I cannot but\\nsuppose that he superin-\\ntended the disposition of\\nthe blacky white and gray\\nmarkings on his wings and\\nhis tail as they succes-\\nsively appeared: he cer-\\ntainly manufadtured the\\npigments with which those\\ncolors were laid on^ some-\\nwhere within himself\\nand all out of egg-and-\\npotato. How he ever got\\nOB\\n19", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "OB\\nthe idea of arranging his\\nfeather characteristics ex-\\na ly as those of all other\\nmale mocking-birds are\\narranged is more than I\\nknow. It is equally beyond\\nme to conceive why he did\\nnot while he was about\\nit exert his individuality\\nto the extent of some little\\npeculiar black dot or white\\nstripe whereby he could at\\nleast tell himselffrom any\\n20", "height": "4004", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2528", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "q B he engaged his enemy, the\\ngallantry with which he\\ncontinued thejight, and the\\ngood faithful blood which\\nhe shed while it lasted. In\\nall these particulars his\\nbattle fairly rivalled any\\nencounter of the much-\\nbruised Knight of la Man-\\ncha.\\nHe was about a year old\\nwhen it happened, and\\nthejight took place a long\\n11", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "way from his native heath.\\nHe was spending the sum-\\nmer at a pleasant country\\nhome in Pennsylvania. He\\nhad appeared to take just\\nas much delight in the\\nclover fields and mansion-\\nstudded hills of this lovely\\nregion as in the lonesome\\nJbrests and sandy levels of\\nhis native land. He had\\nsung, and sung: even in his\\ndreams at night his sensi-\\nOB\\n*3", "height": "3980", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "tive little soul would often\\nget quite too full and he\\nwould pour Jbrth raptur-\\nous bursts of sentiment at\\nany time between twelve\\no clock and daybreak. If\\nour health had been as\\nlittle troubled by broken\\nslumber as was his, these\\nmelodies in the late night\\nwould have been glorious;\\nbut there were some of us\\nwho had gone into the coun-", "height": "3984", "width": "2624", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "try especially to sleep; and\\nwe were Jinally driven to\\nswing the sturdy songster\\nhigh u/i in our outside porch\\nat nighty by an apparatus\\ncontrived with careful re-\\nference to cats. Several\\nof these animals in the\\nneighborhood had longed\\nunspeakably for Bob ever\\nsince his arrival. TVe had\\nseen them eyeing him from\\nbehind bushes and through\\nOB", "height": "3984", "width": "2472", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "windows, and had once\\nrescued him from one who\\nhad thrust a paw between\\nthe very bars of his cage.\\nThat cat was going to eat\\nhim, art and all, with no\\ncompun ion in the world.\\nHis music seemed to make\\nno more impression on cats\\nthan Keats 9 s made on crit-\\nics. If only some really\\ndiscriminating person had\\nbeen by with a shot-gun\\n26", "height": "4004", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "by circumstantial evidence\\nwhen we returned. As soon\\nas he was alone, he had\\navailed himself of his un-\\nusualfreedom to go explor-\\ning about the room. In the\\ncourse of his investigation\\nhe suddenly found himself\\nconfronted by it is\\nimpossible to say what he\\nconsidered it. If he had\\nbeen reared in the woods\\nhe would probably have re-\\n28", "height": "3984", "width": "2596", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "garded it as another mock-\\ning-birdj\u00e2\u0080\u0094Jbr it was his\\nown image in the looking-\\nglass of a bureau. But he\\nhad never seen any member\\nof his race except thejbr-\\nlorn little urifledged speci-\\nmen which he hadjedatsix\\nweeks of age^ and which\\nbore no resemblance to this\\ntall, gallant^ bright-eyed\\nJigure in the mirror. He\\nhad thus had no opportu-\\nOB\\nC *9", "height": "3980", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "OB\\nnity to generalize his kind;\\nand he knew nothing what-\\never of his own personal\\nappearance except the par-\\ntial hints he may have\\ngained when he smoothed\\nhis feathers with his beak\\nafter his bath in the morn-\\ning. It may therefore very\\nwell be that he took this\\nsudden apparitionfor some\\nChimcera or dire monster\\nwhich had taken advan-\\n30", "height": "4008", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3980", "width": "2564", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2592", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3900", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "him to new rage. In order\\nto give additional momen-\\ntum to his onset he would\\nretire towards the other\\nside of the room and thence\\nJly at the Joe. Again and\\nagain he charged: and as\\nmany times slid down the\\nsmooth surface of the mir-\\nror and wounded himself\\nupon the perilous pin-cush-\\nion. As I entered, being\\nJirst up from table, he was\\nOB\\n33", "height": "3972", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "q B in the adt of fluttering\\ndown against the glass.\\nThe counterpane on the\\nbed, the white dimity cover\\nof the bureau, the pin-cush-\\nion, all bore the bloody re-\\nsemblances of his feet in\\nvarious places, and showed\\nhow many times he had\\nsought distant points in or-\\nder to give himself a run-\\nning start. His heart was\\nbeating violently, and his\\n34", "height": "4004", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "feathers were ludicrously\\ntousled. And all against\\nthe mere shadow of him-\\nself IN ever was there such\\na temptation for the head\\nof a family to assemble his\\npeople and draw a prodi-\\ngious moral. But better\\nthoughts came for, after\\nall, was it not probable\\nthat the poor bird was de-\\nfending or at any rate\\nbelieved he was defending\\nOB\\n35", "height": "3980", "width": "2520", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "OB\\nthe rights and proper-\\nties of his absent masters\\nagainst a Joe of unknown\\npower? All the circum-\\nstances go to show that he\\nmade the attack with a\\nfaithful valor as reverent\\nas that which steadied\\nthe lance of Don Quixote\\nagainst the windmills. In\\nafter days, when his cage\\nhas been placed among the\\nboughs of the trees, he has\\n3^", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "not shown any warlike\\nfeelings against the robins\\nand sparrows that passed\\nabout, but only a friendly\\ninterest.\\nAt this present writing,\\nBob is the most elegant,\\ntrim, ele ric, persuasive,\\ncunning, tender, coura-\\ngeous, artistic little dandy\\nof a bird that mind can im-\\nagine. He does not confine\\nhimself to imitating the\\nOB\\nC 37", "height": "3956", "width": "2536", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "O B songs of his tribe. He is a\\ncreative artist. I was wit-\\nness not long ago to the se-\\nlection and adoption by him\\nof a rudimentary whistle-\\nlanguage. During an ill-\\nness it Jell to my lot to sleep\\nin a room alone with Bob.\\nIn the early morning, when\\na lady to whom Bob is\\npassionately attached\\nwould make her appear-\\nance in the room, he would\\n38", "height": "3972", "width": "2592", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "salute her with a certain\\njoyful chirrup, which ap-\\npears to belong to him pe-\\nculiarly. I have not heard\\nit from any other bird. But\\nsometimes the lady would\\nmerely open the door, make\\nan inquiry, and then re-\\ntire. It was ?iow necessary\\nfor his artistic soul tojind\\nsome form of expressing\\ngrief. For this purpose he\\nseledted a certain cry al-\\nOB\\n39", "height": "3968", "width": "2508", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "OB\\nmost identical with that\\nof the cow-bird an inde-\\nscribably plaintive, long-\\ndrawn, thin whistle. Day\\nafter day I heard him\\nmake use of these expres-\\nsions. He had never done\\nso before. The mournful\\none he would usually ac-\\ncompany, as soon as the\\ndoor was shut, with a side-\\nlong inquiring posture of\\nthe head, which was a\\n40", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3972", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "clear repetition of the lov-\\ner s Is she gone? Is she\\nreally gone?\\nJjOB\\n41", "height": "3964", "width": "2552", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "HERE is one\\nparticular in which\\nBob s habits cannot\\nbe recommended. He eats\\nvery often. Injadt if Bob\\nshould hire a cook, it would\\nbe absolutely necessary for\\nhim to write down his\\nhours for her guidance;\\nand this writing would look\\nvery much like a time-table\\nof the Pennsylvania, or\\nthe Hudson River, or the\\n4*", "height": "4000", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3980", "width": "2592", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "OB\\nminutes until 6 p.m.); my\\nsupper is irregular but I\\nwish Bridget particularly\\nto remember that I always\\neat whenever I awake in\\nthe night, and that I usu-\\nally awake Jour or Jive\\ntimes between bedtime and\\ndaybreak TVith all this\\neatings Bob never negledts\\nto wipe his beak after\\neach meal. This he does by\\ndrawing it quickly^ three\\n44", "height": "3972", "width": "2600", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2564", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "or Jour times on each side,\\nagainst his perch.\\nI never tire of watching\\nhis motions. There does not\\nseem to be the least Jridtion\\nbetween any of the com-\\nponent parts of his sys-\\ntem. They all work, give,\\nplay in and out, stretch,\\ncontrast, and serve his\\ndesires generally with a\\nsmoothness and soft pre-\\ncision truly admirable.\\nOB\\n45", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "OB\\nMerely to see him leap\\nfrom his perch to thejloor\\nof his cage is to me a never-\\nfailing marvel. It is so\\ninstantaneous and yet so\\nquiet clip, and he is down,\\nwith his head in the food-\\ncup: I can compare it\\nto nothing but the stroke\\nof Fate. It is perhaps a\\nstrained association of the\\nlarge with the small: but\\nwhen he suddenly leaps\\n46", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2592", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "OB\\nwoods where he would have\\nhad the opportunity to hear\\nthe endlessly-various calls\\nof his race. So Jar as we\\ncan see, the stock of songs\\nwhich he now sings must\\nhave been brought in his\\nown mind from the egg, or\\nfrom some further source\\nwhereof we know nothing.\\nHe certainly never learned\\nthese calls: many of the\\nbirds of whom he gives per-\\n48", "height": "3980", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "them, make any sign that\\nhe desired to retain them,\\nbeyond a certain air of at-\\ntention in his posture. Up-\\non repetition on a differ-\\nent day, his behavior was\\nthe same: there was no\\nattempt at imitation. But\\nsometime afterward, quite\\nunexpectedly, in the hila-\\nrious jlow of his birdsongs\\nwould appear aperfedt re-\\nproduction of the whistled\\nSo", "height": "4004", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "tones. Like a great artist\\nhe was rather above Jiitile\\nand amateurish efforts. He\\ntook things into his mind,\\nturned them over, and,\\nwhen he was jierfedtly sure\\nof them, brought themforth\\nwith perfedtion and with\\nunconcern.\\nHe has his little joke. His\\nfavorite response to the en-\\ndearing terms of the lady\\nwhom he loves is to scold\\nOB\\n51", "height": "3976", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "and stretches his leg along\\nthe inner surface of it as\\nfar as he is able.\\nHe has great capacities in\\nthe way of elongating and\\ncontrasting himself JVhen\\nhe is curious, or alarmed,\\nhe stretches his body until\\nhe seems incredibly tall and\\nof the size of his neck all the\\nway. TVhen he is cold, he\\nmakes himself into a round\\nball of feathers.\\nOB\\n53", "height": "3980", "width": "2520", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "OB \u00e2\u0082\u00acT THINK I envy\\nhim most when he\\ngoes to sleep. He\\ntakes up one leg somewhere\\ninto his bosom, crooks the\\nother a trifle, shortens his\\nneck, closes his eyes, and\\nit is done. He does not ap-\\npear to hover a moment\\nin the borderland between\\nsleeping and waking but\\nhops over the line with the\\nsame superb decision with\\n54", "height": "3980", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "which he drops from his\\nperch to thejloor. I do not\\nthink he ever has anything\\non his mind after he closes\\nhis eyes. It is my belief that\\nhe never committed a sin of\\nany sort in his whole life.\\nThere is but one time when\\nhe ever looks sad. This is\\nduring the season when\\nhis feathers Jail. He is\\nthen unspeakably deje ed.\\nNever a note do we get\\nOB\\nS5", "height": "3984", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "IOB\\nfrom him until it is over.\\nNor can he be blamed. Last\\nsummer not only the usual\\nloss took place, but every\\nfeather dropped from his\\ntail. His deje ion during\\nthis period was so extreme\\nthat we could not but be-\\nlieve he had some idea of\\nhis personal appearance\\nunder the disadvantage of\\nno tail. This was so ludi-\\ncrous that his most ardent\\n56", "height": "3976", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4000", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "OB\\nJident, dashing, riotous,\\ninnocent, sparkling glory\\nof jubilation, we have only\\nto set Bob s cage where a\\nspot of sunshine will Jail\\non it. His beads of eyes\\nglisten, his form grows in-\\ntense, ufi goes his beak, and\\nhe is off.\\nFinally we have sometimes\\ndiscussed the question: is\\nit better on the whole, that\\nBob should have lived in\\n5\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "1 1 Ai\\nwf\\nL\\nf\\nffli\\nI\\n_\\na\\n1\\nK%**\\\\\\nmorfc", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "a cage than in the wild-\\nwood? There are conflidt-\\ning opinions about it: but\\none of us is clear that it is.\\nHe argues that although\\nthere are many songs which\\nare never heard, as there\\nare many eggs which never\\nhatch, yet the general end\\nof a song is to be heard,\\nas that of an egg is to be\\nhatched. He further argues\\nthat Bob s life in his cage\\nOB\\n59", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "OB\\nhas been one long blessing\\nto several people who stood\\nin need of him: whereas\\nin the woods leaving aside\\nthe probability of hawks\\nand bad boys, he would\\nnot have been likely to gain\\none appreciative listener for\\na single half hour out of\\neach year. And, as I have\\nalready mercifully released\\nyou from several morals\\n(continues this disputant)\\n60", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "which I might have drawn\\nfrom Bob, I am resolved\\nthat no power on earth shall\\nprevent me from drawing\\nthisjinal one. JVe have\\nheard much of the privi-\\nleges of genius of the\\nright of the artist to live\\nout his own existence free\\nfrom the conventionalities\\nof society of the un-\\nmorality of art and the\\nlike. But I do protest that\\nOB\\n61", "height": "3972", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "the greater the artist, and\\nthe more profound his pity\\ntoward the fellow -man\\nJbr whom he passionately\\nworks, the readier will he\\nhis willingness to forego\\nthe privileges of genius\\nand to cage himself in the\\nconventionalities, even as\\nthe mocking-bird is caged.\\nHis struggle against these\\nwill, I admit, be the great-\\nest: he will feel the bitterest\\n62", "height": "3984", "width": "2592", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "sense of their uselessness\\nin restraining him from\\nwrong-doing. But, never-\\ntheless, one consideration\\nwill drive him to enter the\\ndoor and get contentedly on\\nhis perch: hisfrllow-men,\\nhis frllow-men. These he\\ncan reach through the re-\\nspedtable bars of use and\\nwont; in his wild thickets\\nof lawlessness they would\\nnever hear him, or, hear-\\nOB\\nC 6 3", "height": "3980", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "O B i n g would never listen. In\\ntruth this is the sublime st\\nof self-denials, and none\\nbut a very great artist can\\ncompass it: to abandon\\nthe sweet green forest of\\nliberty, and live a whole\\nlife behind needless con-\\nstraints, for the more per-\\nfect service of his fellow-\\nmen.\\n6 4", "height": "3980", "width": "2568", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Epilogue", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "f\\nTo Our Mocking-Bird\\nDied of a Cat, May, 1878\\nI\\nTrillets of humor, shrewdest whistle-wit,\\nContralto cadences of grave desire\\nSuch as frofn off the passionate Indian pyre\\nDrift down through s andal-o dor ed flames that split\\nAbout the slim young widow who doth sit\\nAnd sing above, midnights of tone entire,\\ntissues of moonlight shot with songs of fire;\\nBright drops of tune, from oceans infinite\\nOf melody, sipped off the thin-edged wave\\nAnd trickling down the heak, discourses brave\\nOf serious matter that no man may guess,\\nGood-fellow greetings, cries of light distress\\nAll these but now within the house we heard:\\nDeath, wast thou too deaf to hear the bird?", "height": "3984", "width": "2600", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "II\\nAh me, though never an ear for song, thou hast\\nA tireless tooth for songsters: thus of late\\nThou earnest, Death, thou Cat/ and leaf st my gate,\\nAnd, long ere hove could follow, thou hadst passed\\nWithin and snatched away, how fast, how fast,\\nMy bird wit, songs, and all thy richest freight\\nSince that fell time when in some wink of fate\\nThy yellow claws unsheathed and stretched, and cast\\nSharp hold on Keats, and dragged him slow away,\\nAnd harried him with hope and horrid play\\nAy, him, the world s best wood-bird, wise with\\nsong\\nTill thou hadst wrought thine own last mortal\\nwrong.\\nTwas wrong! twas wrong! I care not,\\nwrong s the word\\nTo munch our Keats and crunch our mocking-\\nbird.", "height": "3972", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Ill\\nNay, Bird; my grief gainsays the Lord s best right.\\nThe Lord was fain, at some late festal time,\\nThat Keats should set all Heaven s woods in\\nrhyme,\\nAnd thou in bird-notes. Lo, this tearful night,\\nMethinks I see thee, fresh from death s despite,\\nPerched in a palm-grove, wild with pantomime,\\nO er blissful companies couched in shady thyme,\\nMethinks I hear thy silver whistlings bright\\nMix with the mighty discourse of the wise,\\nTill broad Beethoven, deaf no more, and Keats,\\nMidst of much talk, uplift their smiling eyes,\\nAnd mark the music of thy wood-conceits,\\nAnd halfway pause on some large, courteous word,\\nAnd call thee Brother thou heavenly Bird!\\nBaltimore, 1878.", "height": "3984", "width": "2636", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3984", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "bobstoryofourmo00lani_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "D. B. 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