"Ruffed grouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ancient slept—but still, When the red flower-buds crowd the orchard-bough, And the ruffed grouse is drumming far within The woods, his venerable form again Is at my side, his ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... that still haunt our remaining solitudes, the ruffed grouse—the pa'tridge of our younger days—is perhaps the wildest, the most alert, the most suggestive of the primeval wilderness that we have lost. You enter the woods from the hillside pasture, lounging a moment on the old gray fence to note the play of light ...
— Secret of the Woods • William J. Long
... cocks in the thickets nigh; Gray is the smoke where the ruffed grouse die. There's blackened shell in the trampled fern When the white moon swims ...
— England over Seas • Lloyd Roberts |
