The 



g . Of the sedge-bird, be pleased to say, it sings 



most part of the night ; its notes are hurrying, but 



til a tablet* no t unpleasing, and imitative of several birds, as 



the sparrow, swallow, skylark. 

 When it happens to be silent in the night, by throwing a stone or 



clod into the bushes where it sits, you immediately set it a-singing, 



or, in other words, though it slumbers sometimes, yet, as soon as it 



is awakened, it reassumes its song. G. W. 



