Title: St. Nicholas [serial]
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.]
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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WHEN THE SWAN STARTS SOUTH IT IS NO TIME FOR LESSER BREEDS TO LINGER HIGH SKY By SAMUEL SCOVILLE, JR. Clang! Clang! Clang! The sound drifteddown from mid-sky as if the ice-cold gates of win-ter were opening. A gaggle of Canada geese, wear-ing white bibs below their black heads and necks,came beating down the wind, shouting to earthas they flew. Below them, although it was stillautumn, the tan-colored marsh showed ash-graystretches of new ice, with here and there bluepatches of snow. Suddenly, faint and far, sound-ed other notes, as of a distant horn, and a com-pany of misty-white trumpeter-swans swept alongthe sky, gleaming like silver in the sun. Downfrom the arctic tundras they had come, whereduring the short summer their great nests hadstood like watch-towers above the level sphag-num-bogs, for the trumpeter-swan, like the eagle,scorns to hide its nest and fears no foe of earth orair. As their trumpet notes pealed across the marshthey were answered everywhere by the confusedcries a

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