Show MOCKING BIRD AS DANCERS the power of the mocking bird to amuse folks folk Is not confined lo 10 its abilities as a rich voiced singer the more birds alq ar studied the more the students student wonder what they cant do birds with sonie marked characteristics are some times neglected in n other respects than their peculiarity and so BO it happens that the mocking bird Is better known as nn an imitative singer titan than as an an original one the mocking birds dance methodically like woodsmen woodsman woods men in a square dance rather than with the wild R g rations of a daf darkey key hoe down they keep their bodies stiff with head and tails erect their wings wing drooping and alij feathers athern fe flattened out something like thel the english sparrow when hopping about before itt its sweetheart but the sparrows feathers are thrown out of being flattened against the body two ot of the mocking birds make a set and they bound along jumping high but not far going from one end of the play ground to the other one behind the other about a foot and each one at the end of the playground turns in n a circle slowly and with dignity and goes back again sometimes the stop and look at r some ame distant object day dreaming apparently then away they go again mr blake tells about abent a hen that was disturbed by the actions of a pair of mocking mockingbirds birds ila in their dance whereupon she left her brood of chickens and charged the clucks and fluttering leathers feathers up went the mocking birds with true mocking bird talk st scolding and sputtering at the hen until they fairly drove her away popular science monthly |