A peculiarity which may have helped keep it in mind was that it
consisted of two parts, the summons, and the response; the first part
differing slightly from the second, to distinguish friend answering
friend from the stranger merely imitating sounds accidentally or
incidentally heard. Just what the difference was may be learned from the
notation here given.
Another peculiarity of the call was that it had the quality of taking
character from the person uttering it. For example, Annie Page was the
girl I most devotedly admired, and when "she gaed me her answer true" in
response to my signal, her musical little trill sounded to me like the
voice of the thrush that sang down in the pine woods. Per contra, there
was Frank Barlow, whom we used to call "Crazy Barlow" because of his
headlong rush at whatever object he had in view, and he could make the
call shrill and thrill like a fife.
[Music: _The Brook Farm Call_]
[Music: BOY'S ANSWERING CALL]
[Music: GIRL'S ANSWERING CALL]
I met Frank one morning in the later days of the Civil War when he was
striding along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington at his usual breakneck
pace.
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