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Best authorities, however, seem to have agreed that "Chuck-Will's-widow" is the most accurate translation. It is easy to fancy that Will's widow is buxom and still young, and that to chuck her—under the chin, of course—would put a mellow gurgle into any night bird's note. At any rate the gurgle is there, and though the voice ceases in complete darkness the first crack of dawn lets it through again, and we lose it only when the red-bird chorus begins to pipe hosanna to the new day.
