John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
7818 Thomas Bailey Aldrih 1836-1907 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 7818 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| QUOTATION: | What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Miss Mehitabel’s Son. |