#mocking-bird

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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Harper Lee

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Private Grayrock rose to his feet, looked cautiously about him, shouldered his rifle and set off toward camp. He had gone perhaps a half-mile, and was passing a thicket of laurel, when a bird rose from the midst of it and perching on the branch of a tree above, poured from its joyous breast so inexhaustible floods of song as but one of all God's creatures can utter in His praise. There was little in that- it was only to open the bill and breathe; yet the man stopped as it struck- stopped and let fall his rifle, looked upward at the bird, covered his eyes with his hands and wept like a child!

Ambrose Bierce, "The Mocking-Bird"