"People call them Wood Robins, too, sometimes.

I think that one, or his brother, has a nest in the spruce back of your house." "Uoli-uoli, a-e-o-lee-lee!" sang the Thrush; and as the children became accustomed to the song they noticed that six or eight other Silver-tongues were singing the same tune in different parts of the orchard and garden.

It sounded as if the evening breeze were stirring Aeolian harps.
"Why is he called the Wood Thrush ?" asked Rap.

"I've hardly ever seen him in the real woods--he loves to be in gardens and orchards.

The trees round the miller's house are full of them." "It is not easy to say why he was named so," said the Doctor, "unless it is because he builds his nest higher up in trees than most of his Thrush kin.