WOOD NOTES WILD. 105 
Being an hour late with their breakfast one morning, I 
was received by the feathered supplicants with unusual 
demonstrations. They crowded about me so closely I 
could hardly step without treading on their toes. With 
heads lifted much higher than one would think they 
could be, and eyes shining, their tones and inflections 
were exceedingly human. Like all birds, wild or tame, 
hens employ, ascending and descending, the intervals of 
our scale, except in cases as above described; they use 
the half-step and whole-step, the major and minor thirds, 
the fourth, fifth, and sixth, with a good sprinkling of 
chromatics. In this instance every degree of the staff 
was brought into requisition, the slide of a fourth upward 
occuring oftenest. 
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But the rooster’s petition “led all the rest.” Striding 
about in the rear, an occasional brief command attesting 
