192 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



BOBOLINK. Contin. 



up. But bobolink is too much for me. He is a stent. 

 My grandfather used to say he sang, 



" ' Queer, queer, ker chube 

 Ker dingle-dongle swingle 

 Serangle kalamy kalamy 

 Whoa boys, whoa boys 

 Wicklemerlick wicklemerlick steeple 

 Steeple stoot steere 

 Queer queer temp, temp ! ' " 



C., S. P. in a letter dated October, 1886. 



Ingenious as Grandsire Cheney was, he has been outdone 

 by, or at least in the name of, some colored brother of a 

 later generation : 



" Liberty, liberty, 

 Berry nice to be free ! 

 Bob-o-link where he please, 

 Fly in de apple-trees ; 

 Oh 't is de freedom note 

 Guggle sweet in him troat. 

 Jink-a-link, jink-a-jink. 

 Winky wink, winky wink, 

 Only tink, only tink, 

 How happy, Bob-o-link ! 

 Sweet I Sweet ! " 



Lost Hunter, pub. by Derby and Jackson, 1855 ? 



This tour de force in onomatopoeia goes far toward 

 redeeming the many failures with which one instantly 

 contrasts it. We may doubt that the song thrush (Turdus 

 musicus) carols, " My dear, my pretty dear, my pretty little 

 dear ; " we can hardly credit the Moslem that the curlew 

 sings over and over " Lak, lak, lak ! la Kharya Kalak fih 



