Twenty Hill Hollow 



creek; and the sparrow hawk and gray eagle 1 

 come to hunt. The lark, who does nearly all 

 the singing for the Hollow, is not identical 

 in species with the meadowlark of the East, 

 though closely resembling it ; richer flowers and 

 skies have inspired him with a better song than 

 was ever known to the Atlantic lark. 



I have noted three distinct lark-songs here. 

 The words of the first, which I committed to 

 memory at one of their special meetings, spelled 

 as sung, are, &quot;Wee-ro spee-ro wee-o weer-ly 

 wee-it.&quot; On the 2oth of January, 1869, they 

 sang &quot;Queed-lix boodle,&quot; repeating it with 

 great regularity, for hours together, to music 

 sweet as the sky that gave it. On the 22d of 

 the same month, they sang &quot;Chee chool chee- 

 dildy choodildy.&quot; An inspiration is this song of 

 the blessed lark, and universally absorbable by 

 human souls. It seems to be the only bird-song 

 of these hills that has been created with any 

 direct reference to us. Music is one of the at- 



1 Mr. Muir doubtless meant the golden eagle (Aquila 

 chrysaetos). 



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