 | Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 528 pages
...the swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of May, the swallows came out of it,...and were soon dispersed : About half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 464 pages
...thought the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the Swallows came out of it...before sun-down they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 380 pages
...thought the swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the swallows came out of it...before sun-down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...thought the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the Swallows came out of it...before sun-down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
 | Children's literature - 1843 - 396 pages
...his error.) About the first of May the swallows came out of the tree in large numbers, about mid-day, and soon returned. As the weather grew warmer, they came out in the morning, with a loud noise, and soon dispersed. About half an hour before sunset (he says) they returned in MIL LI o NS, circling... | |
 | Humanities - 1882 - 420 pages
...the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of AJay, the Swallows came out of it, in large numbers, about...and were soon dispersed; about half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending... | |
 | Humanities - 1882 - 418 pages
...the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of May, the Swallows came out of it,...they came out in the morning with a loud noise, or ioar, and were soon dispersed; about half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating... | |
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... hollow elm, called by the people in the vicinity, the Swallow tree. From a man who for several years lived within twenty rods of it, I procured this information. He always thought the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting... 