Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

The Brown Thrasher, an Almanac

• Catalogued by Prewitt as Toxostoma rufum, the Brown Thrasher was judged possessed of a barometric organ, and little else.
• Science teaches, whatever the peasantry may hold, that the organ of destructiveness is, in this species, uncommonly enlarged.
• The old-timers hereabouts maintain that where the Brown Thrasher nests, the pump runs sweet.
• Leave the Brown Thrasher a share of the cider apples, and it will leave you your milk cow.
• It was once gravely held that it will not cross a salt line for love nor money.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.