"Alder tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the cuckoo Upon the alder tree; Your wives you well should look to, If you take advice of me. Cuckoo! cuckoo! alack the eve, When married men Must bid good den To such as horns ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
... to have Jenny Wren tell him that she had seen him with her own eyes sitting in an alder tree and screaming, at the very time that he had been back there in the big pine-tree, was more than Sammy Jay could stand. It was no wonder that his head ached. Hardly any of the little meadow and forest people would speak to him now. ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Mocker • Thornton W. Burgess |
