the sun at noon
`` Bein ' they 're stretched out an ' passive , Moore collects 'em an ' sops 'em up an ' down in the water trough for mebby it 's fifteen minutes . Which they 're reesus ` tated an ' reeproved at one an ' the same time . When them yooths comes to , they 're a model to angels . To be shore , their intellects do n't shine out at first none like the sun at noon , but continyoos blurred for hours . Even as late as the weddin ' of Turkey Track with the Mockin ' Bird -- an ' that ai n't for all of eight weeks -- the G-bar boy informs Boggs confidenshul , as they 're takin ' a little licker all sociable , that speakin ' mental he 's as yet a heap in eeclipse . `` The maiden name of the Mockin ' Bird is Loocinda Gildersleeve , but pop ` lar pref ` rence allers sticks to her stage title . She 's a fav ` rite at the Bird Cage Op ` ry House , at which nursery of the drammy she 's been singin ' off an ' on for somethin' like three years .