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Shrill and shy from the dusk they cry, Faintly from over the hill; Out of the gray where shadows lie, Out of the gold where sheaves are high, Covey to covey, call and reply, Plaintively, shy and shrill. SHRILL AND SHY FROM THE DUSK THEY CRY FAINTLY FROM OVER THE HILL OUT OF THE GREY WHERE SHADOWS LIE OUT OF THE GOLD WHERE SHEAVES ARE HIGH COVEY TO COVEY CALL AND REPLY PLAINTIVELY SHY AND SHRILL
flavor to puddings, which were known as tansy cakes, or tansy puddings. In mediæval times the use of these cakes was specially associated with the season of Easter and it is interesting to notice that in the diet rolls of St. Swithin's monastery at Winchester, which belong to the end of the fifteenth century, we come across the entry "tansey tarte." It has been said that the use of tansy cakes at this season was to strengthen the digestion after what an old writer calls "the idle conceit of eating fish and pulse for forty days in Lent," and it is certain that this was the virtue attributed to the plant by the old herbalists. "The herb fried with eggs which is called a 'tansy,'" says Culpepper, "helps to digest and carry away those bad humors that trouble the stomach." It seems more probable that the custom of eating tansy cakes at Easter time was associated with the teaching of that festival, the name "tansy" being a corruption of a Greek word meaning "immortality." THE PARTRIDGE CALL.  SECTION THIRTY FIVE OF BIRDS IN ALL NATURE VOLUME SEVEN NUMBER FOUR APRIL NINETEEN HUNDRED RECORDED FOR LIVERPOX DOT ORG BY ABBEY THE PARTRIDGE CALL
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