9.The whippoorwill came closer and closer until he was sitting within sight of us on the fence, as though he were pleased to have dancers for his music.
10.But a long line of red-birds and whippoorwills and blue-jays and ground doves will descend from the present owners of nests in the orange trees, and their claim will be less subject to dispute than that of any human heirs.
11.But there was a spring night, before I knew that the whippoorwill was actually the chuck-will's widow and that it was insisting, " Chip hell out of the red oak" ! when the spell of the cry brought me from my bed.