7O STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 
As affording 
some leht on the 
ig 
popular name of “thrash- 
er,’ I might mention the 
remark of a certain matter-of-fact rustic who answered my query 
for enlightenment on the subject. “Some fokes sez it’s becuz 
he’s aliz a-thrashin’ around so in the bushes, 'n’ others sez it’s 
becuz he’s ferever tellin’ uv em to ‘¢hrash tt, thrash it’ But 
thet’s all puppy-cut; he sez exnything you like.” What would this 
unconverted heretic say to the “ Peverly bird,” that won this local 
christening as a tribute from a perplexed husbandman hesitating 
at his choice of crops:—“Sow wheat, Peverly, Peverly”—a refrain 
which is vouched for by many discriminating listeners. Yet there 
are other heretics who aver that this is all ‘“ puppy-cut,” and that 
the little white-throated sparrow in reality voiced a reproof to old 
Peverly which he wouldn’t own:—*All day whittling, whittling, 
whittling.” 
