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He had scarce said the last word before she was turned into a great black woodpecker, or Gertrude's bird, and flew from her kneading trough right up the chimney; and till this very day you may see her flying about, with her red mutch on her head, and her body all black, because of the soot in the chimney; and so she hacks and taps away at the trees for her food, and whistles when rain is coming, for she is ever athirst, and then she looks for a drop to cool her tongue.
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(the Pleiades), while the baker was transformed into a cuckoo. The cuckoo is believed to continue his spring cry only so long as the
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are visible in the heavens. Another version says the cuckoo was a baker's or miller's man. He cheated the poor, and
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and their musical chorus bodes ill or harm to those who hear it. The tradition represents them as the
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The White Doe of Rylstone,