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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 5, May 1900-Various · For the Birds

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number
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  Speaker 1: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 1: Larry Wilson. May the voice of one who goes before
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  Speaker 1: to make the paths of June more beautiful is thine,
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  Speaker 1: sweet May without an envy of her crown and bridle patients,
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  Speaker 1: stringing emeralds and shining rubies for the brows of birch
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  Speaker 1: and maple, flinging garlands of pure white and pink, which
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  Speaker 1: to their bloom add prophecy gold cups, or filling on
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  Speaker 1: a thousand hills, and calling honey bees out of their sleep,
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  Speaker 1: the tiny summer harpers with bright wings awaking, teaching them
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  Speaker 1: their notes for noon, O May sweet, voiced one going
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  Speaker 1: thus before forever June may pour her warm red wine
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  Speaker 1: of life and passion. Sweeter days art thy end of
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  Speaker 1: section one. This recording is in the public domain. Section
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  Speaker 1: two of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number five
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  Speaker 1: May nineteen hundred, recorded for librevox dot org by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: We may hear the bird sing, Nellie hart Woodworth. We
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  Speaker 1: may hear the birds sing, but we cannot describe the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the singer. The great mystery of the singing
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  Speaker 1: is hidden from sight, and the heart of the sweet
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  Speaker 1: singing bird has a vision apart. We may listen intently
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  Speaker 1: to catch the sweet theme, but who can interpret the
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  Speaker 1: soul of the dream. We may hear the birds sing,
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  Speaker 1: catch each generous note that pours to the air from
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  Speaker 1: its quivering throat. See the breast rent with unfathomed, deep stirred,
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  Speaker 1: folded under the song lies the soul of the bird,
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  Speaker 1: unsounded and soundless, too deep for our reach. Though we
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  Speaker 1: listen entrance to its musical speech. Who sees the lark's
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  Speaker 1: soul as it mounts from the sod? Who sees the
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  Speaker 1: clear soul has a vision of God? End of section two.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section three of Birds in All Nature, Volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 2: May nineteen hundred. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 2: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 2: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Uncle Nick on
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  Speaker 2: fishing Erwin Russell. It all assets me laughing when I
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  Speaker 2: happens to be round to see a lot of gemming
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  Speaker 2: come a fishing from the town. Day waits till all
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  Speaker 2: the breakfasts be fo day ever makes a start, and
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  Speaker 2: then you sees him coming in a little jarzy car.
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  Speaker 2: Now jarzy carts is springing, and to study up the sea.
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  Speaker 2: The gemins obliged to ballish it with suffing good to eat,
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  Speaker 2: and jersey carts is lighter run. The gemmins seems to
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  Speaker 2: think by toting long a demijohn of suffering good to drink.
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  Speaker 2: When dye gets at the fishing place, it's astonishing, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: such tricks to go a fishing with nobody never seed.
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  Speaker 2: They pose is stuck together with a dozen gents of tin,
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  Speaker 2: and has a block and tickle for the wine the
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  Speaker 2: fishes in. The gemins makes a heap of fuss and
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  Speaker 2: skiers the fishes off, and then they takes and sots
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  Speaker 2: to pole someplace the bank is soft, and then they
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  Speaker 2: hunts a shady place and settles on the grass. And
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  Speaker 2: presently hears them. That is spade I has to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Peter was a fisherman and understood his trade. He
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  Speaker 2: saw and watched his cork instead of blazing in the shade.
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  Speaker 2: The gemmin isn't coping, or to him they better be,
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  Speaker 2: or is of science fisherman? It do to copy me?
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  Speaker 2: When I goes out of fishing. I puts on my
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  Speaker 2: oldest clothes. The age is pretty tolerable. You'd naturally suppose
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  Speaker 2: I gets up in the morning, long afford, the sun
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  Speaker 2: is riz and gravels onms. I tell you like the
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  Speaker 2: yearly bird eye is as all as veryticular about the
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  Speaker 2: season of the moon. The dark up hit his fishing
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  Speaker 2: time and time for hunting coon. And then it's might
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  Speaker 2: important too, as notice Shedby took a various little circumstances
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  Speaker 2: burned on the luck. You have to spit upon the
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  Speaker 2: bait afore you drops it in, then keep your cork
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  Speaker 2: of bobbin. That's as easy as you can. If someone
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  Speaker 2: steps across the pole, you know your luck is broke
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  Speaker 2: without they steps it back again afore a word is spoke.
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  Speaker 2: Don't never not fool nothing, think of counting all your
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  Speaker 2: straing case. If you do, you ain't a goin to
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  Speaker 2: catch another thing. But if a speign doctor bugs should
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  Speaker 2: lie upon the pole, you know you's good for copch.
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  Speaker 2: All the fishes in the hole die. Now you has
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  Speaker 2: the science what a fisherman should know. So any time
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  Speaker 2: you already all you has to do is to go
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  Speaker 2: and toiler them instructions. If you does it to to notch,
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  Speaker 2: good marster, won't it sprised the folks to see the
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  Speaker 2: mess u cotch end of section three.
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  Speaker 3: Section four of Birds in All Nature, volume seven, number
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  Speaker 3: five May nineteen hundred. Recorded for LibriVox dot org. The
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  Speaker 3: magpie Pika Pica hutsonika. This is a rare winter visitor
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  Speaker 3: and not much known. Its nest is a very bulky
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  Speaker 3: and somewhat remarkable structure, composed exteriorly of sticks of various sizes,
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  Speaker 3: forming a spherical mass, the upper portion of which forms
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  Speaker 3: a canopy to the nest proper, the entrance being through
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  Speaker 3: one side. The eggs are usually six in number, but
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  Speaker 3: often as many as nine, and are of a pale
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  Speaker 3: olive or grayish white color, thickly speckled with olive brown.
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  Speaker 3: The magpie can be taught to talk, is intelligent and inquisitive,
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  Speaker 3: and has many of the characteristics of the raven and
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  Speaker 3: of section four. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section five of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 4: May nineteen hundred. This is a liprivox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 4: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
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  Speaker 4: to volunteer, please visit liprivox dot org. Recording by Avay
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  Speaker 4: in January twenty seventeen. A butterfly's History The Troilus by
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  Speaker 4: Ela F. Mossby The Troilus belongs to the Knights or
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  Speaker 4: Chevaliers and is a beautiful creature. His front wings are
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  Speaker 4: velvety black spotted with yellow. His hind wings blue, elegantly
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  Speaker 4: scalloped with a long streamer at the end, and when
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  Speaker 4: he lifts his wings, the underside is also lovely in
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  Speaker 4: marking and color. His double tongue forms a tube for
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  Speaker 4: sucking honey from deep flower cups, and may also be
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  Speaker 4: coiled up like a lasso when not used. His knobbed
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  Speaker 4: antennae are supposed to be organs of scent by which
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  Speaker 4: he detects the perfume of blossoms or of other butterflies.
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  Speaker 4: For butterflies have distinct odors, The Mountain silver spot smells
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  Speaker 4: like sandal wood, and other butterflies have the delicate fragrance
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  Speaker 4: of jasmine, thyme, balsam or violets. The Anosa butterfly has
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  Speaker 4: a faint smell of honey. The sight of the butterfly,
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  Speaker 4: in spite of his single and compound eyes. The letter
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  Speaker 4: made up of many shining facets like cut gems, is
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  Speaker 4: not believed to be very keen. It is thought that
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  Speaker 4: while he perceives colour in mass, he has little perception
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  Speaker 4: of form and is easily deceived the white butterflies, for instance,
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  Speaker 4: a light on the white veined and spotted leaves in
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  Speaker 4: a garden while seeking white blossoms. No organs of hearing
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  Speaker 4: have ever been discovered, and for the most part the
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  Speaker 4: movements of the butterfly are noiseless as drifting snowflakes, the
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  Speaker 4: only exception being a slight click from a sudden closing
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  Speaker 4: of the wings or in rapid flight. The whole structure
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  Speaker 4: of the creature is for movement. He has no brain,
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  Speaker 4: only a cluster of nerves somewhat like one, no heart,
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  Speaker 4: only a segmented tube in which a white blood circulates,
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  Speaker 4: no distinct lungs, but air chambers throughout the whole body,
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  Speaker 4: so that it is easily poised amid the aerial waves
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  Speaker 4: as he glides or flutters securely above the earth. There
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  Speaker 4: are many muscles, two or three pairs of legs, and
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  Speaker 4: about five pairs of hooked arrangements called pro legs, and
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  Speaker 4: his glory lies in his four broad wings of radiant colors,
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  Speaker 4: covered with silvery and shining plumes of softest texture. These
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  Speaker 4: wings are to him as the knight's steed, bearing him
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  Speaker 4: proudly in his circling combats with his rivals, or in
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  Speaker 4: his sportive ascents with his mate, or on his gay
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  Speaker 4: journeys with a crowd of winged comrades along the aerial
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  Speaker 4: high roads. He need not seek adventures, for when he
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  Speaker 4: is a butterfly, he has already passed through wonderful experiences.
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  Speaker 4: His life begins with a tiny egg the size of
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  Speaker 4: a pin head, laid singly on the under side of
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  Speaker 4: a leaf for protection. Every species of butterfly has its
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  Speaker 4: own special food plants and will feed from Noah. But
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  Speaker 4: do not imagine that the pastures of our troilus are limited.
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  Speaker 4: He feeds upon two of the largest and most beautiful
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  Speaker 4: tree families, the Rosaceae and the laura se beautiful for fruit, flour, foliage,
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  Speaker 4: and fragrance. With the rose family alone, the range is
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  Speaker 4: immense embracing, as it does not only the rose, but
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  Speaker 4: the hawthorn, the meadows sweet, the mountain ash, the strawberry,
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  Speaker 4: the cherry apple, and all the lovely orchard trees. While
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  Speaker 4: with the other family. We find the glossy and shining
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  Speaker 4: leaf of the magnolia tribe, and the aromatic odors of
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  Speaker 4: sassafras and spicewood. The butterfly eggs are marvels of color,
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  Speaker 4: pale green or white at first, changing to all sorts
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  Speaker 4: of iridescent tints as the life inside matures, and also
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  Speaker 4: of form, for they mimic the delicate sea fashions of
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  Speaker 4: urchin and coral, the richness of oriental mosques, and the
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  Speaker 4: intricacy of design in Gothic windows. Let us fancy the
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  Speaker 4: egg of our troils, fastened a fairy cradle, indeed on
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  Speaker 4: the leaf of a wild cherry tree that has tossed
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  Speaker 4: its sprays of feathery white bloom and its rustling leaves
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  Speaker 4: all June long, in sunshine and wind and twinkling shower
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  Speaker 4: beneath the summer sky. When the shell is broken, what
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  Speaker 4: a strange thing creeps forth well named a larvae or mask,
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  Speaker 4: for it is a disguise that has no trace of
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  Speaker 4: a winked nature. The lover of the butterfly shrinks with
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  Speaker 4: loathing from this hideous creature, dragging itself slowly along in
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  Speaker 4: quest of the food which it greedily devours the fresh,
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  Speaker 4: sweet leaves of the tree that has sheltered it. But
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  Speaker 4: unless it eats and grows, there will be no butterfly,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes the skin is cast off as many as
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  Speaker 4: five or six times, even the inner lining as well
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  Speaker 4: as the outside skin, to give its growth free play.
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  Speaker 4: If the caterpillar were large, it would be terrible, for
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  Speaker 4: it protects itself, being soft skinned and open, helpless by
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  Speaker 4: a mimicry of rage, pawing the ground, lashing its head
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  Speaker 4: furiously from one side to another as a lion lashes
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  Speaker 4: its tail, rearing itself up menacingly in a sphinx like attitude,
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  Speaker 4: grinding its mandibles with a grating sound. Its color is
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  Speaker 4: at first usually green, like the leaf it feeds on,
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  Speaker 4: but it afterwards develops bright hues. In some species, the
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  Speaker 4: trailess caterpillar is green with a yellow stripe on each
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  Speaker 4: side and row of blue dots, while its underside and
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  Speaker 4: feet are reddish. These varied colors show little, however, on
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  Speaker 4: the tree, for the leaves of fruit trees, especially quickly
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  Speaker 4: assume a yellow tint and are streaked and spotted. Caterpillars
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  Speaker 4: protect themselves in many ways. Some make a tent of
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  Speaker 4: a leaf near their feeding ground, turning over an edge
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  Speaker 4: under which they creep, or weaving the different corners of
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  Speaker 4: the leaf closely together with silken threads. Even the petals
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  Speaker 4: of a blossom may be secured by a filmy web.
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  Speaker 4: If the caterpillar must spend the winter as a caterpillar,
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  Speaker 4: it makes of the leaf a winter house, which it
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  Speaker 4: covers with wood colored silk, and weaves the thread securely
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  Speaker 4: to the skin. These nests resemble closely the buds of
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  Speaker 4: the tree. After the caterpillar's stage of humiliation and danger
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  Speaker 4: comes the strange period of sleep or seeming death, when
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  Speaker 4: the cocoon or a chrysalid appears. The name pupa or
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  Speaker 4: babe is also used from the likeness to an infant
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  Speaker 4: in swaddling bands. The caterpillar was always liable to curious
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  Speaker 4: fits of drowsiness or stupor. This stage of the pupa
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  Speaker 4: is a prolonged stupor, and it prepares for it by
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  Speaker 4: rolling off the garment of skin and leaving it under
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  Speaker 4: foot in the silken shroud or cell. Sometimes it sleeps
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  Speaker 4: in the earth, sometimes in a rock crevice, sometimes hangs
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  Speaker 4: like our troilers looped up by a thread to a tree.
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  Speaker 4: The case has knobs or horns to protect the sleeper
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  Speaker 4: when the wind blows it against anything. It is sensitive
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  Speaker 4: to light, and swings towards or from it according to need.
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  Speaker 4: At last comes the resurrection. From a narrow slit emerges
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  Speaker 4: a crumpled, wrinkled thing. If the struggles are long dare
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  Speaker 4: not aid even by a touch. The butterfly is of
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  Speaker 4: such delicate texture that outside help means mutilation. Let it alone.
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  Speaker 4: Soon are the wings smoothed. I saw one hang himself
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  Speaker 4: up and lengthen, and lengthen until he was about twice
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  Speaker 4: as long as at first. Then his wheats them in flight.
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  Speaker 4: A glorious and joyous creature of the sunshine. He likes companions,
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  Speaker 4: and quickly will he find himself greeted by adjacent or
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  Speaker 4: a splendid ajax, or encounter a flock of his own kind,
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  Speaker 4: with whom he may feast by roadside puddle or beds
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  Speaker 4: of opening flowers. Marvelous care is shown in the provision
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  Speaker 4: for the awakening from its long slumber. The threads are
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  Speaker 4: woven so loosely near the place of opening that they
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  Speaker 4: are easily broken. Even in his first feebleness. The old garment,
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  Speaker 4: rolled in a heap at his feet, cannot impede or
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  Speaker 4: entangle him. He is now the imago image, in full
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  Speaker 4: of his species, and like the fairy Aeriel, he will
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  Speaker 4: follow summer as it flies, and swing under the blossom
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  Speaker 4: that hangs on the bow, an airy spirit of joy.
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  Speaker 4: End of section five.
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  Speaker 1: Section six of Birds in All Nature, Volume seven, number
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  Speaker 1: five May nineteen hundred, Recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 1: Larry Wilson. The Dead bird Nellie hart Woodworth hark to
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  Speaker 1: the beating at the lattice. Sure it is some winged
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  Speaker 1: creature asks for room within my walls? Shall I deny
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  Speaker 1: its quest? Refuse and welcome to the homeless guests, who
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  Speaker 1: could the rigor of such night endure? Nay, open wide
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  Speaker 1: the window, Come, oh, come and share my shelter. All
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  Speaker 1: the air was stirred by the mysterious pulsing of the
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  Speaker 1: wings in useless haste, until the murmurings grew faint and fainter.
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  Speaker 1: Now they pulseless lay again they found the light. My
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  Speaker 1: eyes were blurred with t's a pity Here upon my breast,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt have rest rest thee dear bird, I pray,
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  Speaker 1: and as the bird's throat trembles when the song throbbing
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  Speaker 1: for wings pours to the generous air. So my heart
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  Speaker 1: throbbed with pity, and my hand went quivering as I
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  Speaker 1: held the stranger. There the velvet wings dropped heavy or
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  Speaker 1: the eyes. There came a mist like hoary mists that
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  Speaker 1: roll far up the mountain, blotting out the skies and
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  Speaker 1: leaving scars upon the lonely soul. The stars were blurred,
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  Speaker 1: the hilltop's canoped, the valleys lost. The little bird was dead.
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  Speaker 1: End of section six. This recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain Section seven of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven
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  Speaker 1: m five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 1: by Larry Wilson. The field daisy ginny t Rupricht nomadic
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  Speaker 1: queen was softly petaled face. Thine is a beauteous throne
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  Speaker 1: where'er thou art and thine arraigned triumphant from the start,
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  Speaker 1: and though thy throne were in half desert place, or
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  Speaker 1: where thou mayest behold the brooklet's race, or just above
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  Speaker 1: the sleepy valley's heart, or higher up the grasses tall
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  Speaker 1: to part queen of the fields, thou reignest with witching grace.
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  Speaker 1: If shine tis well, if shade thou murmur'st not, for
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  Speaker 1: thou hast learned of nature, patient trust, glad of the
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  Speaker 1: cloudless light, All golden rot nor sad. If shadows fall
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  Speaker 1: as shadows must, all these shall flee before thy floral
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  Speaker 1: and leave fresh charms throughout thy wide domain. End of
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  Speaker 1: section seven. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section eight of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number
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  Speaker 5: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for Librevox dot Org by
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  Speaker 5: Betty B. A submerged forest many years ago, even so
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  Speaker 5: far back that the traditions of the oldest Syewash extend.
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  Speaker 5: Not there too, there was some vast upheaval of Mother
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  Speaker 5: Earth on the shores of Lake Sammamish that sent a
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  Speaker 5: portion of the big Newcastle Hill sliding down into the lake,
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  Speaker 5: with its tall evergreen forest intact. And there it is
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  Speaker 5: to this day. About this time of the year, the
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  Speaker 5: waters of the lake are at their lower and then
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  Speaker 5: the tops of the tallest of these big submerged trees
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  Speaker 5: are out of the water, but never more than ten
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  Speaker 5: or twelve inches. Unfortunately for the curiosity seeker and traveling public. Generally,
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  Speaker 5: the submerged forest is on the opposite side of the
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  Speaker 5: lake from the railroad and the station of Monahan, and
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  Speaker 5: very few people ever see the phenomenon unless they take
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  Speaker 5: the time and pains necessary to reach it. Sam Combs,
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  Speaker 5: the Pioneer, has just been over to view the submerged forest,
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  Speaker 5: and he is very enthusiastic concerning its beauties and mystery.
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  Speaker 5: He talks Chinook fluently, but with all his quizzing of
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  Speaker 5: the red skinned inhabitants, he has never learned anything that
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  Speaker 5: will throw any light on the history of the forest.
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  Speaker 5: Under water, the waters of the lake are very deep,
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  Speaker 5: and the bluff's back of the beach very precipitous, so
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  Speaker 5: that the only explanation of the freak is that, either
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  Speaker 5: by an earthquake or some other means, a great slide
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  Speaker 5: has been started in early times, and it went down
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  Speaker 5: as a mass until it found lodgment at the bottom
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  Speaker 5: of the lake. At this time one can see down
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  Speaker 5: into the glassy, mirror like depths of the lake for
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  Speaker 5: thirty feet or more. Near the banks, the forest trees
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  Speaker 5: are interlaced at various angles and in confusion, but further
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  Speaker 5: out in the deep water they stand straight, erect and
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  Speaker 5: limbless and barkless, one hundred feet tall. They are not
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  Speaker 5: petrified in the sense of being turned to stone, but
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  Speaker 5: they are preserved and appear to have stood there for ages.
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  Speaker 5: They are three feet through some of them, and so
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  Speaker 5: firm in texture as to be scarcely affected by a
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  Speaker 5: knife blade. The great slide extended for some distance, and
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  Speaker 5: it would now be a dangerous piece of work for
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  Speaker 5: a steamer to attempt passage over the tops of these
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  Speaker 5: tall trees. Even now, the water along shore is very deep,
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  Speaker 5: and a ten foot pole with sink perpendicular bill out
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  Speaker 5: of sight ten feet from shoreline. All over this country
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  Speaker 5: are found strata of blue clay, which in the winter
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  Speaker 5: season are very treacherous, and given the least bit of opportunity,
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  Speaker 5: will slide away, carrying everything above with them. This is
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  Speaker 5: the theory of the submerged forests of Lake Sammamish. It
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  Speaker 5: probably was growing above one of these blue earth strata
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  Speaker 5: and heavy rains, or probably an earthquake set at moving.
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  Speaker 5: The quantity of earth carried down was so great that
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: the positions of the trees on the portion carried away
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: were little affected. It is hardly to be believed that
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: the earth suddenly sank down at this point and became
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: a portion of the beautiful lake. Few such places exist.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: There is a place in the famous Tumwater Canyon on
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the line of the Great Northern near Leavenworth, which is
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: in some respects similar. At some early time a portion
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: of the great mountain side came rushed down and buried
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: itself at the bottom of the canyon. Now there is
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: a considerable lake, and in the center stand tall, limbless trees,
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  Speaker 5: different in species from those growing along the canyon. At
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Green Lake, near Georgetown, Colorado, a lake which is ten
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  Speaker 5: thousand feet above sea level, is a submerged forest of
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: pine trees some hundred feet tall, but not so numerous
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  Speaker 5: as in Lake Sammamish. This same theory explains their presence
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  Speaker 5: as given above end of section eight. This recording is
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  Speaker 5: in the public domain.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Section nine of Birds in All Nature, volume seven, number
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  Speaker 3: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org red
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  Speaker 3: breasted nuthatch Sita canadensis by Lyn's. It is doubtful if
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: any bird has been more persistently overlooked or more universally
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: confounded with a closely allied species than the subject of
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: this sketch is superficial. Resemblances to the white breasted nut hatch,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: either in colour or voice, are not striking, certainly, not
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  Speaker 3: so much so as with other species, which are not
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: so confused. Yet, it is certainly true that but a
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  Speaker 3: small proportion of the laity are aware that there are
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: two nuthatches roaming the woods, the one a migrant in
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the Middle and Southern States, the other resident wherever it
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: is found. What then, are the marked differences between them?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: The red breast is decidedly smaller than his cousin. His
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: breast is tinged with red or brown instead of the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: immaculate white, and there is a black line running through
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the eye to the back of the head, separating the
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: white line above him from the white throat. The cry
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: is a nasal, long drawn yank yank, very different from
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: the brisk, crisp, business like utterance of the white breast. Moreover,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: he is a traveled gentleman who spends the winters in
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  Speaker 3: the south and in summers mostly north of the United States,
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  Speaker 3: while we have the white breast with us during the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: entire year. So much for differences. The habit of climbing
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: head downward, sideways or anyway is common to all nuthatches.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: They feed upon the insects and their eggs and larvae
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: which inhabit the bark crevices, but also sometimes boult into
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: the air in pursuit of a flying insect, after the
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: manner of the flycatchers. In the north, where the red
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: breast sometimes tarries well into the winter, rarely remaining all
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: winter long, they fasten nuts and seeds in cracks or
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  Speaker 3: crevices and hatch them with the beak, eating the meat.
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: It is this habit of hatching nuts that gives the
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: group its English name. The red breast is a bird
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  Speaker 3: of the whole of the United States and at least
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  Speaker 3: southern Canada, but can be called common only locally, and
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  Speaker 3: occasionally some seasons. It may not appear at all at
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  Speaker 3: some stations in its migration roots, and again be common
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  Speaker 3: for a short period, especially in the autumn. In most
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: central localities, it may be expected during the last two
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: weeks of April and the first week of May, and
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: again from September well into the winter months, if not
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: all winter long. The nest is placed in some dead
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: stub in a hole excavated by the birds, usually several
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: feet from the ground as high as twelve feet. Sometimes
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: the nest material is some soft substance like fine grass
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and rootlets. The excavation is usually shallow, scarcely more than
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: six inches down the step, with other even shallower holes
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and other trees in the vicinity used as roosting places
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  Speaker 3: for the male during incubation. In beginning the excavation, the
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: birds drill small holes in a circle in the bark,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: then take out the centerpiece. In several instances, the bark
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: about the entrance to the nest cavity was coated with
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: pitch in which were sticking the red breast feathers of
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: the architects. This pitching of the entrance to their home
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: does not seem to be a habit common to all
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: members of the species, however, for few collectors mention the pitch,
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  Speaker 3: as they certainly would if it were present. While birds
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: of the woods, neither the red breast nor the white
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: breast are strictly confined to the woods during the seasons
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: when they are not rearing a brood, the red breast
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: is frequently seen on the fences and out in the open,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: gleaning from weed stalks. During his sou forward journey, he
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: also seems very fond of orchards and the ornamental trees
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: in the yard, where he does excellent service for the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: next season's fruit and foliage. He is perhaps a little
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: less inquisitive than his white breasted cousin, but his small
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: size and drawing voice make him a pleasant fellow to me.
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  Speaker 3: End of section nine. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section ten of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 7: May nineteen hundred. This is a Libertyvox recording. All Libertyvox
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  Speaker 7: recordings are in the public domain. For modern information or
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: to volunteer, please visit libertyvox dot org. Recording by Tavers
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  Speaker 7: Migratory Birds B. W.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Jones.
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  Speaker 7: Quote the stalk in the heavens knoweth her appointed times,
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: and the craze, and the turtle and the swallow observed
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: the time of their coming end quote Jeremiah, chapter eight,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: verse seven. The migration of birds, as Bailey observes, is
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: by no means the least interesting part of their history.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: I have noted for many years the migration of the
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: birds that make a longer or shorter stay with us
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: summer a winter, and have tabulated their arrivals and departures,
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: and it has been to me a labor of love.
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Few things cast such attraction around the young and tender spring,
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: or over brown and matured autumn, as the coming and
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: going of migratory birds. With delight. We welcome the first
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: notes of the purple martin, the bank or sand swallow,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: and the chimney swift as they return to us in
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: spring from the far sunny south Land. And with feelings
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: of wonder, we witness the flight of the wild geese
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: as they pass over us high in air. Or listen
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: to the notes that tell us the whipper will and
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: the Chuckwell's Widow are again the denizens of our groves,
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: And night after night, as I listen to their weird song, feelings,
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: almost akin to superstition, creep over me till I can
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: imagine their utterances to be the omen of good riel
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: to the hearer. There is no more mysterious bird in
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: our land than the chuck Will's Widow. Its migration so
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: far northward as southeast Virginia has been doubted by some naturalists,
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: but facts are against them. And as I look abroad
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: an automn and view the bivies of snow birds that
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: have just returned to us, And here again the familiar
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: chip chip, as a passing vehicle puts them to sudden flight.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: How the finger of thought touches again on memory's bell,
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: and I think of boyhood's happy hours when I welcomed
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: with delight the snow bird's back again to our lanes
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: and fields. Each feathered songster, as it revisits us from
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Northland of Southland, awakens feeling of profoundest interest. And if
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: we have within us a single spark of that divine
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: love of nature that dwells with the poet or the naturalist,
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: we instinctively receive the birds back to their old haunts,
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: as we would welcome a long absent friend. What boy
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: of sensibility, having a spark of the nobler touch of manhood,
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: could have it in his heart to harm the least
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: of these sinless creatures that enliven our homes with their
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: presence and song? Who can look without admiration upon them?
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  Speaker 7: Who could wish to destroy them? And when we reflect
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: that the martins, willets, swifts and swallows that sport about
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: our homes in summer, and the mocking bird that trills
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: its polyglot song in our cedar grows by night have
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: returned to us from tropical or subtropical climes that only
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: a few weeks before they were flitting through the orange
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: groves of Cuba, or building their nests amid the vine
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: latticed thickets of Florida. We cannot but admire and wonder
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: at that peculiar instinct, as how it calls it, that
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: guides them with such unerring certainty through all the changes
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: of their mysterious round. For a period of twenty years,
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: the average time of the arrival of the purple Martian
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: has been about the last five days in March and
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: its departure for the South the second week in August.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: A few individuals may remain longer, but it is only
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: when their breeding has been delayed. The earliest appearance of
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: the Martin that I have noted was the eighth of
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: March eighteen seventy one. The latest twenty sixth of April
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: eighteen eighty five. The last date was a cold and
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: backward spring. This bird rears two broods of four or
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: five each during the four months that it remains with us.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: The Chimney swift comes a week or ten days later
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: than the Martin, and seldom begins to build before the
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: tenth of June. It raises one brood of four to
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: six young, usually in some unused chimney. It remains with
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: us longer than the martin, even until the cool nights
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: of the last of September, reminded that the summer is
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: over and gone. The flight of this bird is employed
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: as a weather sign by country people. When it soars high,
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: they say fair weather will continue, but when it flies
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: low then rain is near at hand. The whipper will
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: arrives commonly the last of March, but often not before
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: the tenth or fifteenth of April. The Chuckwill's widow comes
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: three weeks later. Both of these strange birds rear one
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: brood of too young. The nest is placed upon the
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: bare ground, under a clump of low bushes or a
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: dense holly or rather low growing tree. The eggs have
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: the same markings as those of the bull bat or nighthawk.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: Another very interesting migratory bird, the catbird, and the wood sparrows,
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: do not reach us till near the end of April,
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: and often May is far advanced for these birds unnoticed.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: The last is one of the sweetest songsters of our groves.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: In summer, rivaling any bird of our climb. It seeks
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: the coolest and darkest wood, where it pours forth. Its
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: nose are after our. Being one of the earliest to
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: begin its mating lays, the humming bird is the latest
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: visitor to come to us in summer. This diminutive aerial
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: voyager is one of the most charming of the migratory tribe,
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: and worthy all the admiration that has been lavished upon it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: It loves to sport in the flower gardens, where its
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: SIPs the nectar from the honeycuffs of Flora's train. Only
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: one species comes to us, the well known ruby throat.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: But the young reader interested in these things should begin
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: observation and make a list for himself of all the
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: migratory birds in his locality. A good form for such
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: a record may be found in how It's Book of
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: the Seasons, an English work, but one from which a
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: great deal about nature can be learned. We will close
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: our too brief skitch with the inquiry of Missus Kimball
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: of Connecticut. Quote, O, wise, little birds, how do you
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: know the way to go southward and northward to and
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: fro far up in ether pipeed? They we but abay,
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: A voice that causes us far away. End quote end
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: of section ten.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Section eleven of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number five,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: May nineteen hundred, recorded for librevox dot Org by Larry Wilson.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Across the Way George Klingole, A distant line of misty hills,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: A stretch of meadow low with wreaths of brush, skirt
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the woods, midst fabrics, spun of snow, a fista through
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the forest trees, a temple if you choose with pictured
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: screen and Arabesque mosaics, dusky hues, dim mullioned windows, half
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: confessed beyond far columned aisles and arches lost and found
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: anew through traceries defiles a roof, we might perchance ascribe
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the misty, stooping sky beyond the wreaths of crystal swung
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: where winds go singing by, beneath where worshiper might tread.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: A glimpse of crystal tile, caught through the weeds and
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: tangled reeds which guard the near defile. A myriad forms
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: a glint in white close close beneath the feet, fantastic
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: hands that reach across the myriad, hands to greet low
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: shrubs in fleecy white array, tall stems with hood and
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: wings and vinds, a glint and crystal lace wound through
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: fantastic rings and grasses frosted into gems. Near By a
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: bough bent down with such a wealth of clinging leaves
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: stained deep.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: In ruddy brown. These in the wood's low breath of song.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: Just now across the way tomorrow visions change, you know,
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: to meet each hour of day. End of section eleven.
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain.
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: Section twelve of Birds in All Nature, Volume seven, number
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: Andrea Kay. The purple Martin progny subis beautiful and interesting.
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: As this bird is known to be, less has been
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: said about it than of any of our common birds
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: of agreeable song and manners. Its common names are house martin,
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: purple swallow, American martin, and violet swallow. The young male
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: is several years in attaining the uniform glossy violet black plumage,
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: the steel blue feathers appearing in gradually coalescing patches. It
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: is common to the whole of temperate North America, wintering
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: in Mexico and the bermudas it is only accidental in Europe.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: The adult female is glossy blue black above, becoming hoary
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: grayish on the forehead and sometimes on the nape. Also,
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: the young are similar to the adult female. Ridgeway says
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: that no bird of America is more deserving of protection
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: and of encouragement to live about the habitations of man
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: than the purple martin. One pair of them will destroy
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: more insects in a season than all the English sparrows
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: in a township will kill in their lifetime. Besides, their
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: notes are pleasing to the ear, and their actions, both
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: when on the wing and when perching upon their boxes
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: extremely interesting. During the breeding season, the male has a
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: continued and varied song of great beauty and considerable power.
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: And it is as much on account of the sweetness
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: of their notes as for their familiarity and usefulness, that
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: these birds are such general favorites in the wild woods,
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: where they have not had opportunity to avail themselves of
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: man's hospitality. They are as lovely in musical as when
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: semi domesticated in our dooryards, and it is said, are
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: in all respects exactly the birds. When Autubon was traveling
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: through the Middle states. He reported that almost every country
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: tavern had a Martin box on the upper part of
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: its sign board, and commented, I have observed that the
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: handsomer the box, the better does the inn prove to be.
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: The Indians hung up calabashes for the Martins so they
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: would keep the vultures from the deer skins and venison
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: that were drying. Mister Nerling says that the Martin is
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: as well satisfied with the simple hollow gourd attached to
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: a pole near a negro hut as with the most
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: ornamental and best arranged Martin house in the beautiful gardens
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: and parks of rich planters and opulent merchants. He claims
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: that where no nesting boxes are provided, our Martin will
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: not breed, and that it hardly ever accepts nesting boxes
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: attached to trees. Preferring localities were the chances given to
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: dart in and out uninterrupted by any obstacle. The struggle
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: between the Martins and Sparrows is so bitter that one
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: pair of Martins, watched by mister Woodman, adopted the plan
• 43:03
  Speaker 9: of never leaving the nest alone, taking turns and going
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: for food, because, as he explains it is comparatively easy
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: to keep a sparrow out of a box, but it
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: is impossible for Martin to dislodge him after he has
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: built a nest. Mister Kaiser says that in the autumn,
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: the Martins assemble in flocks, sometimes large enough to suggest
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: an ecumenical council, and fall to cackling, twittering, discussing, and
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: in many other ways making preparation for their aerial voyage
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: to another climb. They really seem to regret being compelled
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: to leave their pleasant summer haunts. If one may judge
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: from the length and fervor of their goodbyes, perhaps they
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: are like human beings who have a strong attachment for home,
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: and must visit every nook and tryst to say au
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: revoir before they take their departure. One can easily imagine
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: how dear to their hearts are the scenes of their
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: childhood and of their nest building and brood rearing. After departing,
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: they sometimes return in a day or two before they
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: begin their southward pilgrimage. In real earnest do they get
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: homesick after they have gone some distance and return once
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: more to look upon the familiar scenes. It is one
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: of the Mysteries of bird Life end of section twelve.
• 44:23
  Speaker 9: This recording is in the public domain Section thirteen of
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: Birds in All Nature, Volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred,
• 44:39
  Speaker 9: recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Andrea Kay. A Glimpse
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: at Beautiful Pictures by Anne Wakeley Jackson. How many of you,
• 44:51
  Speaker 9: I wonder have a west window, not one opening upon
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: a blank wall, nor upon a vista of houses, but
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: one from which you can see the sky. If your
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: sky view extends to the horizon, you are indeed blessed
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: for then your window is no less than a frame
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: for the most beautiful pictures Nature's own. No landscape painter
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: ever lived who could put upon canvas such beauty as
• 45:21
  Speaker 9: you may see on the majority of days from your
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: west window. It will only cost you a little time,
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: and you will be richly repaid for time thus spent.
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: Of course, finer views can be seen from a hilltop
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: or looking across an open plain, but one cannot often
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: be in these places. While one might spare ten or
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: fifteen minutes to stand by the window at sunset after
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: a busy day, I know of nothing more composing to
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: the spirit than the contemplation of some majestic form of beauty,
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: and what could be more tranquilized than the ever changing
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: beauty of a sunset. Unless the day close enveloped in clouds,
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: there will be some picture well worth looking at to
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: be seen from your window. When a sunset is unusually gorgeous,
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: we frequently exclaim that is the most beautiful one I
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: ever saw. But when we have watched them day after day,
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: we will find comparisons impossible. Each one will have a
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: special beauty of its own, quite beyond compare Some will
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: be more brilliant than others, but each one will be
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: perfect in its way, and every one will have something
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: new of beauty to reveal to us if we look
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: with seeing eyes. I am particularly blessed with an open
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: view to the west, just screened at its base by
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  Speaker 9: a delicate fringe of trees. The sunsets this winter have
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  Speaker 9: been a constant joy to me, and I long for
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  Speaker 9: others who love the beautiful to sh share this great
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  Speaker 9: pleasure with me. The artistic nature and love and appreciation
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  Speaker 9: of beauty are well developed in many people whose lives
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: are so hard and busy and full of care, that
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  Speaker 9: the delights of the world of art are out of
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  Speaker 9: their reach. It is to these particularly that I would
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  Speaker 9: commend the world of nature, which is more wonderful and
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  Speaker 9: far more beautiful than any art, and is a free
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  Speaker 9: gift to all. It is an interesting study to note
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  Speaker 9: the different effect of the leafless trees against various backgrounds.
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  Speaker 9: I am one of the people who think trees are
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  Speaker 9: more lovely in winter than in summer. Nothing can be
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  Speaker 9: more exquisite to my mind than the tracery of bare
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  Speaker 9: branches and twigs against the sky. What a study is
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  Speaker 9: offered by the varying lines of different trees, the limbs
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: of some starting from the mainstem in graceful curves, while
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: others are twisted and bent at sharp angles. During the
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  Speaker 9: cloudy days, I am apt to think a gray background
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  Speaker 9: the best that could be imagined. But next morning, perhaps
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  Speaker 9: the clouds have melted away, and I find my trees
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  Speaker 9: wearing an entirely new expression against the bright blue sky.
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  Speaker 9: Where they appear just dark lines against the gray, they
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  Speaker 9: have brightened up and taken on new and varied colors.
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  Speaker 9: Seen against the blue, and I notice how much darker
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  Speaker 9: the trunks and lower limbs are compared with the upper branches.
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  Speaker 9: How different again they look with the sunset sky behind them,
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  Speaker 9: the whole western horizon and upward for quite a space
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  Speaker 9: is a blaze of orange flame. How black they look silhouetted.
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  Speaker 9: Thus again we have a pale, cold orange or pink
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  Speaker 9: fading into golden white. How clearly every twig is brought out.
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  Speaker 9: How is it possible that we can pass such beauty
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  Speaker 9: by unnoticed or be indifferent to it? Because it is common.
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  Speaker 9: It should be the cause of great rejoicing that this
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  Speaker 9: miracle of beauty is an almost daily occurrence. If the
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  Speaker 9: winter sunsets are less gorgeous than those of summer, they
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  Speaker 9: are full of refinement of detail. Theirs may be a
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  Speaker 9: cold beauty, but it is so clear cut and perfect.
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  Speaker 9: Dear reader, if you possess the frame, don't let the
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  Speaker 9: pictures escape you. Remember that any day not absolutely cloudy
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  Speaker 9: and dull, will furnish you with a masterpiece. And even
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  Speaker 9: after the last bright rays of the dying sunlight have
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  Speaker 9: faded away, glance out of the window again as you pass,
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  Speaker 9: for perhaps the calm beauty of the evening star has
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  Speaker 9: a message for you. Two end of section thirteen. This
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  Speaker 9: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section fourteen of Birds and All Nature volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 5: May nineteen hundred, recorded for librevox dot org by Betty B.
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  Speaker 5: Goose plant in bloom. All lovers of plants and flowers
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  Speaker 5: should visit the greenhouse at Washington Park, Chicago and see
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: the goose plant. It is growing in one of the
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: small spanned roof structures and is seen today. There are
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  Speaker 5: over a dozen goslings and three or four geese growing
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  Speaker 5: on one plant. One of the biggest geese is over
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  Speaker 5: a yard long and broad in proportion. This plant is
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  Speaker 5: one of the most unique, rare, and valuable known to scientists.
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Its correct name is Aristolochia gigas sertivanti, and it was
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: brought here for the World's Fair. At the fair, however,
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  Speaker 5: it bore only one or two flowers, as it was
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  Speaker 5: too young to bear more. It is a native of
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  Speaker 5: South America, and even there is considered a marvelous product.
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  Speaker 5: In one of the greenhouses next to the goose house
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  Speaker 5: at Washington Park is the collection of palladiums of the
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  Speaker 5: most varied shapes and colors ever dreamed of. Mister Canst,
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  Speaker 5: the head gardener, says the collection has no duplicate. Many
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  Speaker 5: of the plants have leaves as delicately traced as the
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  Speaker 5: finest Valenciennes lace. A newspaper may be read if covered
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  Speaker 5: with one of these transparent leaves. The colors are all
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: shades of red, pink, maroon, crimson, and yellow. The collection
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: of water lilies is now at the best and is
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  Speaker 5: truly beautiful. Mister Canst says that the aquatic plants are
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  Speaker 5: as amenable to cultivation as are the terrestrial plants. End
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  Speaker 5: of section fourteen. This recording is in the public domain
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: Section fifteen of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number
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  Speaker 5: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 5: Betty b untitled A special stage is that of the
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: semi apes, probably Man's ancestors. Among the semi apes closely
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: resembled the existing lemurs, and like these let a quiet
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: life climbing trees. These are immediately followed by the true
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: apes or simians. It has long been beyond doubt that
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  Speaker 5: of all animals, the apes are, in all respects the
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  Speaker 5: most nearly allied to Man. Just as on the one side,
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: the lowest apes approach very near to lemurs, so on
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: the other side do the highest apes most closely resemble Man.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: The difference between man, and the highest form of apes,
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: the gorilla, is slighter than between the gorilla and the
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: baboon below. Even the baboon, the oldest parent form of
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: the whole ape group, must certainly have been thickly covered
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: with hair, and was in fact a tailed ape. It is,
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  Speaker 5: after all some satisfaction to know that a thousand million
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  Speaker 5: years may have been consumed in this evolution of man.
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  Speaker 5: End of section fifteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section sixteen of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number
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  Speaker 5: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 5: Betty b. Untitled the hair in seldom flaps as wings
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  Speaker 5: at a rate less than one hundred twenty to one
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  Speaker 5: hundred fifty times a minute. This is counting the downward
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: strokes only, so that the bird's wings really make from
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  Speaker 5: two hundred forty to three hundred distinct movements a minute.
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  Speaker 5: End of section sixteen. This recording is in the public
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  Speaker 5: domain Section seventeen of Birds and All Nature, volume seven,
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  Speaker 5: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 5: by Betty B. Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed, by which name
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: Jonathan Chapman was known in every log cabin from the
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: Ohio River to the Northern Lakes is an interesting character
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: to remember. Barefooted and with scanty clothing, he traversed the
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: wilderness for many years, planting appleseeds in the most favorable locations.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: His self sacrificing life made him a favorite with the
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: frontier settlers, men, women, and especially children. Even the savages
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: treated him with kindness, and the rattlesnakes, it was said,
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: hesitated to bite him. During the War of eighteen ti twelve,
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: when the frontier settlers were tortured and slaughtered by the
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: savage allies of Great Britain, Johnny Applesey continued his wanderings
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: and was never harmed by the roving bands of hostile Indians.
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: On many occasions, the impunity with which he ranged the
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: country enabled him to give the settlers warning of approaching
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: danger in time to allow them to take refuge in
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: their block houses before the savages could attack them. An
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: informant refers to one of these instances, when the news
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: of Hall's surrender came like a thunderbolt upon the frontier.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: Large bands of Indians and British were destroying everything before
• 55:41
  Speaker 5: them and murdering defenseless women. And children, and even the
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: block houses were not always a sufficient protection. At this time,
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: Johnny traveled day and night warning the people of the
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: impending danger. He visited every cabin and delivered this message.
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: The spirit of the Lord is upon me, anointed me
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  Speaker 5: to blow the trumpet in the wilderness and sound an
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: alarm in the forest. For behold, the tribes of the
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: Heathen are round about your doors, and a devouring flame
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  Speaker 5: followeth after them. The aged man who narrated this incident
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  Speaker 5: said that he could feel even then the thrill that
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: was caused by this prophetic announcement of the wild looking
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: herald of danger, who aroused the family on a bright
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: moonlight midnight with his piercing cry. Refusing all offers of
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: food and denying himself a moment's rest, he traversed the
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: boarders day and night until he had warned every settler
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: of the impending peril. Johnny also served as coal porter,
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: systematically leaving with the settlers chapters of certain religious books
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: and calling for them afterward, and was the first to
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: engage in the work of protecting dumb brutes. He believed
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: it a sin to kill any creature for food. No
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: Brahmin could be more concerned for the preservation of insect life,
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: and the only occasion on which he destroyed a venomous
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: reptile was a source of long regret, to which he
• 57:06
  Speaker 5: could never refer without manifesting sadness. He had selected a
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: suitable place for planting apple seeds on a small prairie,
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: and in order to prepare the ground, he was mowing
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: the long grass when he was bitten by a rattlesnake.
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: In describing the event, he sighed heavily and said, poor fellow,
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: he only just touched me when I, in the heat
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: of my ungodly passion, put the heel of my scythe
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: in him and went away. Some time afterward, I went back,
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: and there lay the poor fellow dead. He was a man,
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: after all, Hawthorne might have exclaimed of him too, his
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: maker's own truest image, A philanthropic man, not that steel
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: engine of the devil's contrivance, A philanthropist A. P. Russell's
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: Library Notes and of section seventeen. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain Section eighteen of Birds and All Nature,
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: volume seven, number five, May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox
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  Speaker 5: dot Org by Betty B. Untitled poem. Robins in the
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: tree tops, blossoms in the grass. Green things are growing
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: everywhere you pass, Sudden little breezes, showers of silver dew,
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: black bough and bent twig butting out anew, pine tree
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: and willow tree, fringed elm and larch. Don't you think
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: that mays Time's pleasanter than March? T? B Aldrich end
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: of poem. This recording is in the public domain Section
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: nineteen of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 5: May eighteen hundred, recorded for Librevox dot Org by Betty
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  Speaker 5: b Ring necked dove Zinnadura macroura. The popular names for
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: this favorite bird are turtle dove, common dove, and Carolina dove.
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  Speaker 5: It is an inhabitant of all of temperate North America
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: to a little north of the United States boundary, south
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: through Mexico and Central America to the isthmus of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica,
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: and some other West Indian islands. The species have even
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: been known to winter as far north as Canada. Mister
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: John J. Morley of Windsor, Ontario, informing Professor Baird that
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: he had seen considerable numbers near that place on the
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: sixth of December eighteen seventy eight, and that he had,
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: on other occasions seen it in various places from three
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: to twelve at a time. It is a common summer
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: resident in Illinois. The majority arrived the last of March
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: or first of April, and depart by the middle of October.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: In many places it becomes partly domesticated, breathing in the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: trees in the yard, and showing but little fear when
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: approached the ring necked dove all day throughout the sunny sky.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: All other sounds above as breathing, sweet tranquility. Sweet voices
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: of the dove have rung the oft recurring note, a
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: constant vow of love. Thus its dear may to ever
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: cheer as still together Nearer they fly a distant echo,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: faint yet clear, quick falling now so strangely near, when
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: sunshine gladdens earth and sky, but cold doth blow the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: dreary wind or clouds arise and float above, with shadows,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: darkening light of day. No echo then from greeting love,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: but deep in quiet nests, secure for sunshine's cheer awaits
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: the dove, Oh dove, O love forever bright like sunny skies,
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  Speaker 5: your life appears and songs of joy your heart's delight.
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  Speaker 5: If storms or shadows dark affright, my love endures and
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  Speaker 5: conquers fears. End of section nineteen. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain. Section twenty of Birds and All Nature,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for Libervox
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 5: dot org by Betty B. Some Early Risers. An ornithologist,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: having investigated the question of at what hour in summer
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: the commonest small birds wake and sing, says the greenfinch
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: is the earliest riser, as it pipes as early as
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: one thirty in the morning, the black cap beginning at
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: about two thirty. It is nearly four o'clock and the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: sun is all above the horizon before the first real
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: songster appears, in the person of the blackbird. He is
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: heard half an hour before the thrush, and the chirp
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: of the robin begins about the same length of time
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: before that of the wren. The house sparrow and the
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: tom tit occupy the last place in the list. This
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: investigation has ruined the lark's reputation for early rising. That
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: much celebrated bird is quite a sluggard, as it does
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: not rise until long after the chaffinches, linnets, and a
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: number of hedgerow birds have been up and about end
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: of section twenty. This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: Section twenty one of Buds and All Nature, volume seven,
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  Speaker 7: number five May nineteen hundred. Readfullybrevokes dot Org by Tavaresh
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  Speaker 7: the Young Naturalist. The Cleanness of the Air. Professor Duer
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 7: has recently devised a new method of testing the contamination
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: of the air. A short time ago, he exhibited before
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: the Royal Institution two samples of liquid air in glass tubes.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: One was made from air which had been washed to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: purify it from dust, sout, carbonic acid and other impurities. This,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: when condensed, was a pale blue liquid. The other sample
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: was made by condensing the air of the lecture room
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 7: in which the audience was assembled, and was an opaque,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: blackish fluid, resembling soup in appearance. Their wonderful eyes. When
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 7: a fly comes from an egg, one of a family
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 7: of thousands, it is soft, pulpy, white, eyeless, legless. When mature,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: it affords the student one of the most marvelous fields
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: in all nature, with its nerve clusters and brain, its
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 7: feet like the hoofs of a rhinoceros, a thousand hollow
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 7: hairs on each footpad, the wings, which make fifteen thousand
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 7: vibrations a second, and the eyes. There are eight thousand
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: of these, each a perfect lens. A fli's eyes are hard, immovable,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 7: and retain their form after death. As a fly cannot
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: turn its head, it has eyes in all directions. So
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: small are these eyes that one million would not cover
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  Speaker 7: the surface of a square inch. Each eye measures a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 7: thousandth part of an inch, and the color is almost
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 7: always red. Each of these eyes is a lens, and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 7: photographs have been taken through them. The lenses are of
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: varying kinds, some suitable for looking off at a distance,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 7: others for things close at hand. Occasionally, with his thousand eyes,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 7: a fly is deceived. This is evidenced when a blue
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: bottle inside a room heads for the open country. He
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 7: does not see the window glass, and the thump with
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: which he strikes, and the angry buzz which shows his discomfiture,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: show how mistaken he was. To prove there is nothing
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 7: extraordinary in the flies having eight thousand eyes. It is
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 7: known that a certain beetle owns fifty thousand, sixteen eyes.
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  Speaker 7: A certain butterfly thirty four thousand, seven hundred and ten
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 7: and a common dragonfly twenty five thousand, eighty eight and
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 7: a silkworm moth twelve thousand, five hundred. Notes on animals,
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  Speaker 7: The insect affects its breathing not as men and animals do,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: by the lungs, but through openings in all sides of
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: the body. It has an intricate system of tubes running
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 7: through all parts of its person, through which the air
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: is brought in contact with the legs, wings, and so on.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 7: These tubes are each protected by delicate membranes. In the fly,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 7: there exist certain air pouches in addition to the tubes,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: which serve as reservoirs of air. It is generally supposed
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: that instinct unerringly teaches birds and insects the best way
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 7: in which to build their homes or nests, and also
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 7: to provide for their offspring. The following incident recently underpersonal
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: observation will show that instinct is not a ways whi
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  Speaker 7: is infallible, says the Scientific American. A friend placed three
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  Speaker 7: small empty vials in an open box on a shelf
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  Speaker 7: in an upright possession, in close contact, and they were
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 7: uncorked a short time after what it was a matter
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: of surprise to find that these had been appropriated by
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 7: a female mud wasp. She had placed a goodly number
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: of spiders in the center vial, doubtless intended to serve
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: as food for her future brood, then proceeded to deposit
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: her eggs in those on either side. She next closed
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 7: tightly the mouths of all three receptacles with a hard
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 7: lime cement. Having finished her work, she then doubtless went
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 7: on her way, satisfied all had been done for her
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: offspring that a thoughtful mother could do. But just think
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  Speaker 7: of the sensation of those little wasps when they come
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 7: into existence, For while starving in their sealed cages, they
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 7: can plainly see through the impenetrable glass walls the bountiful
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  Speaker 7: supply of food which was provided for their use. End
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  Speaker 7: quote end of section twenty one. This recording is in
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  Speaker 7: the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section twenty two of Birds and All Nature, volume seven,
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  Speaker 5: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 5: by Betty b. Untitled. It has been supposed that the
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  Speaker 5: swallow is more rapid in its flight than almost any
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 5: winged creature, but the dragonfly easily outwings it. An observer
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: of insect life relates an account of a chase between
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: a swallow and an immense dragonfly, in which the contest
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: lasted a long time. The swallow evidently at hopes of
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: catching the insect, but finally, after a long campaign, gave
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: it up and let the fly escape. It has been
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: claimed that the dragonfly was such a voracious devourer of
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 5: mosquitos that these small pests were thrown into a panic
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: if a dragonfly approached them. It was declared that a
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: fly confined in a room would speedily clear it of mosquitoes,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: but repeated experiments fail to substantiate this claim. The dragonfly
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: possesses the unique faculty among winged creatures, birds or insects
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: of flying backwards and forwards and sideways without turning its body.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: There are very few insects that the swallow, with its
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: marvelous speed and dexterity, cannot catch, but the dragonfly is
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: one of them. The dragonfly, without any apparent trouble, will
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: keep leap a few feet ahead of a swallow for
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: half an hour at a stretch, and no matter how
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  Speaker 5: swiftly the swallow flies, the dragonfly is never just there
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  Speaker 5: when it makes its swoop. This is because the swallow
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: has to turn its body, while the dragonfly only reverses
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: its wings end of section twenty two. This recording is
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  Speaker 5: in the public domain Section twenty three of Birds and
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: All Nature, volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded
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  Speaker 5: for Librevox dot Org by Betty b. Untitled the investigations
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: of Professor Weisman have done more to solve the problem
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: how death came into the world than those of any
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: other living man. It is generally assumed that death is
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: associated with all forms of life, but this is not
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  Speaker 5: really the case. The lower forms of life life, for example,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: may be said to have a perpetual existence and not
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 5: to be subject to death. For in unicellular reproduction, life
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: is practically endless. In the case of higher forms of life,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: death is universal, and for a very natural reason. The
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: aim of nature is the perpetuation of the species, not
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: of the individual. And when creatures have, as in the
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: case of certain insects, reproduced themselves once for all, they
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: have no further need of existence. Creatures that nurse their
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: young like mammals and produce them slowly have need of
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: longer life, or the species would speedily be exterminated. But
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: there is no reason why the individual, having performed its
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: duty in relation to the species, should continue to exist.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: Since its existence then becomes a superfluity between multicellular and
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: unicellular existence. There is their death, the marked difference that,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: whereas the former dies when it has reproduced itself and
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: so perpetuated its species, the latter goes on perpetually reproducing itself,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: one cell growing out of another without cessation. To Wiseman,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: we owe the knowledge of how it is that death
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: intervenes when multicellular existence develops from unicellular The change is
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: affected by the differentiation of the individual or somatic and
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: the reproductive cells. The former have lost the power of
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: multiplication and reproduction and consequently died, while the latter have
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: preserved it. End of Section twenty three. This recording is
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  Speaker 5: in the public domain Section twenty four of Birds and
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: All Nature, volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded
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  Speaker 5: for LibriVox dot Org by Betty b untitled The most
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: curious of all objects in New Zealand is that which
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: the Maoris call a whetteau. One is uncertain whether to
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: call it an animal or a plant. In the first
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: stages of its existence. It is simply a caterpillar, about
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: three or four inches in length, and always found in
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 5: connection with the Rata tree, a kind of flowering myrtle.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: It appears that when it reaches full growth, it buries
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: itself two or three inches underground, where instead of undergoing
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: the ordinary chrysalis process, it becomes gradually transformed into a plant,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: which exactly fills the body and shoots up at the
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: neck to a height of eight or ten inches. This
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: plant resembles in appearance a diminutive bulrush, and the two
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: animal and plant are always found inseparable. One is apt
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: to relegate it to the dome main of imagination among
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: dragons and mermaids, but then its existence in nature have
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 5: been accepted by the late frank Buckland. How it propagates
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: its species is a mystery. One traveler, after describing its
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 5: dual nature, calmly states that it is the grub of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: the night butterfly. If so, then the grub must also
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: become a butterfly, or what becomes of the species. One
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: would be ready to suppose that the grub does really sow,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: and that some fungus finds the cast off slough congenial
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: quarters for its growth. But as far as present observation goes,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: the grub never becomes a butterfly, but is changed in
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: every case into a plant end of section twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section twenty five of Birds in All Nature, volume seven,
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  Speaker 10: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox Dottward by
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 10: Matthew Parks. A tame tarantula a half breed boy of
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 10: Mexican and Indian blood recently attracted much attention at Winslow,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 10: Arizona by their performance of an educated tarantula he owns.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 10: He carries the big, formidable looking insect in a large
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 10: wooden box slung about his neck, which, when exhibiting his pet,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 10: he places on the ground as a sort of stage.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 10: At the command of its master, the tarantula mounted a
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 10: small ladder, rung a bell, and performed on a miniature trapeze.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 10: Then to the thumping of a tambourine in the hands
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 10: of the boy, it proceeded to revolve slowly about as
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: if waltzing, and when it had finished, saluted the crowd
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 10: by lifting one leg three times. After his performance was over,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 10: it crawled to its master's shoulder, where it sat, occasionally
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 10: running around his neck or down into his bosom. The
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 10: boy says he tamed the spider when it was young,
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: first by feeding it every day until it grew accustomed
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 10: to him, then gradually taught at the tricks it nose.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 10: He declares that it is much more intelligent than any dog,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 10: and very tractable, though uncompromising in its enmity to anyone
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 10: but himself. It is as large as a silver dollar
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 10: when curled up, though its legs are two or three
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 10: inches long. The body is an ugly, dull brown, covered
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 10: with short, coarse black hair, which also covers the limbs,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 10: but is very sparse and bristly. The eyes are small
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 10: and gleam like diamond points, while the mouth is furnished
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 10: with slender, overlapping bangs. The power of spring in these
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 10: creatures is said to be something incredible, a leap of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 10: ten feet being no tremendous exertion. The boy who owns
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 10: the only one which has ever made friends with any
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 10: other living creature is from the Magalon Mountains, end of
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  Speaker 10: section twenty five. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Section twenty six of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 11: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 11: by Eli Barrettour untitled A story is told by George W.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 11: Griffin of Henderson County of a shepherd dog owned by him,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 11: which certainly demonstrates the superior instinct of this little wooly
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 11: creature over most species of the canine family. One day,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 11: said the gentleman, I was driving along the public highway,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 11: and the dog was following me. I stopped to talk
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 11: to some friends that I met, and while conversing with them,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 11: unknowingly dropped my watch from my vest pocket. The watch
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 11: had a short piece of leather attached to it, which
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 11: answered for a fob. As soon as the chat ended,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 11: I got into my buggy and drove on. I had
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 11: driven half a mile or more when, to my astonishment,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 11: I noticed the dog was trotting along close behind the vehicle,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 11: with the watch hanging from his mouth by the leather strap,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 11: which he held firmly between his teeth. Of course, I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 11: made haste to stop and get out of the buggy.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 11: As I did so, the dog came up to me,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 11: wagging his tail, seemingly conscious and proud of what he
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 11: had done. This, though, is just one of the many
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 11: intelligent acts to that little animal's credit. Louisville Post. When
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 11: a dog barks at night in Japan, the owner is
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 11: arrested and sentenced to work for a year for the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 11: neighbors whose slumbers may have been disturbed end of section
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  Speaker 11: twenty six. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section twenty seven of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven,
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  Speaker 5: number five, May nineteen hundred, recorded for Librevox dot Org
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  Speaker 5: by Betty B. Apossum Didelphus Virginiana Shaw. The apossum is
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: the only member of its order, the Marsupialia, which inhabits
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: North America, says mister Charles Hallock, one of the leading
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: naturalists in the United States, Its range not reaching much
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: north of the Ohio River on the west or New
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 5: Jersey on the east. It is probably never found east
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: of the Hudson River. This animal is about twenty inches
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: long to the root of the tail, which appendage is
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: fifteen inches in length. The color is pale grayish, the
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 5: hair being nearly white with brown tips. The tail is
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 5: nearly naked and is prehensile, and the general aspect of
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 5: the creature is rat like. It is with a certain
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: feeling of sadness that we chronicle the dying out one
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: by one of old customs and habits each year. Old
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: usages give place to new and the change, certainly in
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: very many cases, is not for the better. The possum
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 5: can hardly be classed among the game animals of America,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: yet its pursuit in the South in old plantation days
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: used to afford the staple amusement for the dusky toilers
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: of the Cotton States. It was the custom in Antebellum times,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: as often as the revolving year, brought round the late
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: fall days with their ripened fruit and golden grain for
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: the dark population of the plantation, occasionally accompanied by young
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 5: massa to have a grand possum hunt all a mode.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 5: This custom, through decitude and change of circumstances, has been
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  Speaker 5: well nigh consigned to oblivion. Its food, upon which it
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: becomes fat and toothsome to the dusky palate, is persimmons
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: and wild grapes, together with the various berries and fruits
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  Speaker 5: that abound in the Southern States after the first hoar
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: frost has whitened the hills. The possum is most eagerly
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: sought for by Caesar Pluto and Mars at night, the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: darky start forth. All musts armed to the teeth with
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 5: every available weapon, and accompanied by a number of nondescript
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 5: dogs generally well trained for possum or coon hunting. These
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: dogs have some hound blood in their composition and understand
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 5: the requirements of the occasion perfectly. Some ancient shade of
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: disks with snowy hair is selected as leader, and he
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: controls the dogs and manipulates the horn. The favorite haunts
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 5: of the varmint are familiar to the Negroes, and the
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 5: meat is generally held on the borders of the swamp
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: where per simmons abound, or if the moon shine too
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: brightly for the game to venture far from cover, in
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: the darker vales, where the luscious grapes run wild in plenty.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: The dogs range far from the party, and the moment
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: one of them strikes the trail of an old possum,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: he gives the signal note to the expectant party by
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: a short yelp. This sets the sable hunters wild with excitement.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: They listen for the second sound sure to come, which
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: will betoken that the varmin is treed. They are not
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: long kept in suspense for faint away down in the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 5: valley comes the Joyful Bay, and at the signal the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: whole party stampede, spite of all Uncle Caesar's attempts to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: restrain them, and rush pell mell through bush and break
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: in the direction of the sound. They arrive, panting and
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: breathless from the wild race in twos and threes, and
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 5: are soon all assembled at the foot of a small
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: sapling in the branches of which the possum has taken
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: temporary refuge from his pursuers. Soon a nimble young buck
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: shins the tree, and the marsupial is shaken off after
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: some difficulty, for he clings with the utmost tenacity to
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: the limb, using the tail, not the least in this
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: battle for freedom. The anxious dogs below await his fall,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: and his death is compassed in less time than it
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: takes to tell it. This is the only method employed
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: in the capture of the possum, and this is rapidly
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: becoming traditional. End of section twenty seven. This recording is
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  Speaker 5: in the public domain Section twenty eight of Birds and
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: All Nature, Volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: for librevox dot org by Betty B. Something about dogs
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 5: Blenheim or Marlborough Spaniels, which greatly resemble the latter in
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: form and general appearance, get their English name from Blenheim
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 5: Palace in Oxfordshire, where the breed has been preserved since
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 5: the beginning of the eighteenth century. Mastiff is the term
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: applied to a very large and powerful species of the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: canine family, and there is considerable conflict of opinion regarding
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 5: the origin of the word. Some claim that it is
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 5: derived from the Italian mastino or the French masten, both
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 5: of which signify large limb. This word, they say, was
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 5: gradually corrupted into masti, a Lincolnshire expression meaning very large, muscular,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 5: or big, until it gradually assumed its present form. Others
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 5: again say its true origin is the old German maston
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: to fatten, because the mastiff is a large dog and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 5: seems better fed than any other. These animals were very
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 5: highly prized by the early Romans, who match them to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: fight in the arena with wild animals. It is related
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 5: that very often two or three mastiffs defeated a lion
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: in such combats. Poodle is derived from the German pudel,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: a puddle or pool. This dog was originally German and
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: The name was probably given it because of being very
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: closely allied to what is known as the water dog.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 5: They are, without doubt the most intelligent of all canines.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 5: The shepherd dog, called collie in Scotland from the Gaelic
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 5: quilon or puppy, gains its title from the fact of
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 5: its being used to watch sheep and protect them from marauders.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 5: Of every description. As to the derivation of the word bulldog,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 5: it is only necessary to state that this species was
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 5: exclusively used in bull baiting, and from that circumstance arose
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: the name by which it is universally known. A cross
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: between this and the terrier is appropriately termed the bull terrier.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 5: The Alaskan dog is almost human in intelligence. He weighs
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 5: about a hundred pounds. Heavily laden, he will travel sixty
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 5: miles a day, says the Saint Paul Despatch. With twenty
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: dogs in a team, no two of them are in
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 5: a straight line from the driver. When unhitched for the night,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: they pile upon the first blanket that is thrown upon
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: the snow, and there they stay. When you crawl into
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: your sleeping bag and pull a robe over it, the
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: dog will get under the robe unless you are careful,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: he will be inside of the bag in the morning.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: The animal's endurance is phenomenal, and they are capable of
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: strong affection. They are great fighters. A traveler who recently
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: returned from Alaska says of the treatment accorded these faithful animals.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: The whip that is used on them is the cruelest
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: thing of its kind that is known to man. Thirty
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: feet in length and two inches thick near the short handle.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 5: It has a lash ten feet long that cuts like
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 5: a knife. The Russian knot isn't to be compared to it.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 5: When a dog is struck, you hear a sharp yelp,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: and then your sleigh whirls pasted a bit of fur
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: or possibly a piece of bloody skin lying on the snow. Recently,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: a little girl named Lilian could not be found. It
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: was early in the afternoon when she was missed. There
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: was great excitement, for it was feared the little girl
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 5: had been stolen or fallen into the river not far away.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: Searchers were sent in every direction, but there was no
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: trace of the little girl even when night came. Among
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: the most earnest searchers was Lilian's pet dog, Rover. He
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: ran about with his nose to the ground, hunting everywhere.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: When night came, lanterns were lighted, and the people still
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: looked for and hoped they would find Lilian. Rover had
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 5: come back to the house, and in some way he
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: went down an unused stairway. At its foot was a
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: window that opened into a small room that had not
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: been used in a long time. Rover gave three sharp barks,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: and the little girl's grandfather hurried to the part of
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: the house where the dog was. When Rover saw him,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: he barked more sharply and sprang at the window, in
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: front of which was a chair. The chair was moved,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 5: and there sat the little girl, just waked up. She
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 5: had gone into this room to play house and had
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: fallen asleep. Rover is the hero now in that family.
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  Speaker 5: End of section twenty eight. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 5: public domain Section twenty nine of Birds and All Nature,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 5: volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 5: dot Org by Betty B. Easy. Lessons in Evolution. With
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 5: the growing popularity of South Kensington Museum, the directors and
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 5: curators of its priceless collections have increased their efforts to
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: adapt some of the accumulated store of knowledge which those
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 5: collections represent to popular comprehension. The results of this activity
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: have of late become manifest both in the Great Central
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: Hall and in the incomparable collection of British birds. The birds,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: which have been for many years a dull assemblage of specimens,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 5: all stuffed alike and bearing an unnatural common resemblance to
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: one another, are being re arranged in cases with the
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 5: proper environment of rocks and shrub, sand hill or marsh,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: and with a skillful and successful attempt to display them
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: in their habitat as they live. The work is not
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: nearly complete, it will hardly be so for two years
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: to come. But already some of the cases, especially those
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 5: of the Solon geese, the eagles, the cormorants, and the
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 5: almost vanished British bustart, are most interesting and beautiful object
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 5: lessons in natural history. A lesson of a different kind
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: is being begun in the Central Hall. During the period
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: of Sir William Flower's directorship, a number of specimens of canaries,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 5: pigeons and domestic fowl were collected, and it was sought
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: to show by means of these the variations which breeding
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 5: might produce on a single type. Two cases of these
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 5: specimens now stand in the central hall. On the top
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 5: of the pigeon exhibit is the common rock pigeon. Below him,
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 5: tier upon tier are ranged the carriers, tumblers, powders, the
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: thirty odd breeds which fanciers have produced from the original ancestors.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 5: Many of these specimens were prize winners in their day.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: The same distinction appertains to the twenty or thirty varieties
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: of canary which are in an adjoining case, and which
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  Speaker 5: are the descendants of some ancestors whose little wings were
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 5: not bright yellow at all, but a dull brownish green.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 5: The domestic fowl in the same case are intended to
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: exhibit similar artificial peculiarities, though it should be noted that
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 5: the nine feet long tails of the Japanese bantam are
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: not so much the result of breeding as of eccentric cultivation.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: For the unfortunate bird's feathers are carefully trained in this
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: way throughout the whole of an uncomfortable life. But the
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: lesson in evolution which these cases seek to convey is
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: to be carried out on a much larger scale at
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 5: the further end of the central Hall are to be
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 5: ranged a number of specimens of dogs, cows, goats, horses, cats,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 5: Every species in fact of which mankind has produced definite breeds,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 5: even fish, bees, silk moths, and the greatly modified native
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 5: oyster will find representation here. The nucleus of the dog
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: collection has already been formed and includes a mastiff of
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 5: the old English breed, heads of the Irish wolfhound, Danish
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 5: and French mastiffs, Russian and Mexican lapdogs remarkable for their
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 5: smallness and fullerton, the famous coursing greyhound. Numerous skulls and
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 5: several mummied dogs given by Professor Flinders Petrie will add
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 5: to the interest of this collection. The authorities hope that
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 5: persons who lose pure bread or prize animals by death
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: will present their bodies to the museum in order that
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 5: they may be added to this extremely interesting display. End
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  Speaker 5: of Section twenty nine. This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: Section thirty of Birds and All Nature, volume seven, number
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: Larry Wilson. The Circropia box rest h Metcalf. The circopia
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: doptorous insect of the family bomba city is the largest
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: and most beautiful of our American boths. It is quite
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: generally distributed throughout the United States. The large wings, measured
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: from five to six inches, are covered with dusky brown scales,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: the borders richly variegated and beautifully marked, the anterior ones
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: having near the tops a dark spot resembling an eye,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: and both pairs of wings having kidney shaped red spots.
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  Speaker 1: The caterpillar or larva is nearly as beautiful in color
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: as the perfect moth, being about three inches long of
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: a light green color with coral red, yellow and blue warts,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: with short black bristles near its head. It feeds on
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: the leaves and nearly every species of forest fruit and
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: shade trees till late in August or September. Then it
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: descends from the trees to seek some shrub upon which
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: to fasten its winter home. Occasionally they will be satisfied
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: with the location in a tree top, but not often.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: This home building is exceedingly interesting, and although you can
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: watch them only for a few hours, you still linger
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: near and imagine what you cannot see. When the right
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: location is found, it spends a very strong thread for
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: the outside, fastening it securely to a small branch, and
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: going back and forth with this strong silk until it
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: assumes its proper shape and proportion, you will find it
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: almost impossible to tear it open with your fingers, and
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: only a sharp knife will enable you to see its contents.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: This strong outside is necessary for protection, as the woodpeckers
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: are very fond of the larvae and imago. After this
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: strong outside is completed, the silk is swoven very loosely
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: between it and the cocoon proper. This serves as a
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: blanket for warmth, so that the baby moth is as
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: safe from sel severe winter cold in storms as a
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: baby child in its cradle. The inner room of this home,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: or the cocoon proper, is made of very fine silk,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: which can be readily reeled off, and we are told
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: that it has been carded and spun and knit into
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: stockings that washed like linen, and that cloth woven from
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: the silk is much more durable than that made by
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: the silkworm. But for the delicate character the larvae, which
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: are very difficult to raise, it would become an important
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: article of commerce. The inside of this cocoon is as
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: smooth as satin, and the larvae, after changing to the
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: proper state is glossy black, from one and a half
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: inches to two inches in length. As the time draws
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: near for the great change to the beautiful moth, the
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: pupa grows very soft and moistening. The smaller end of
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: the cocoon, with a secretion prepared for this use, comes
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: forth with damp small wings, which as they dry out,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: develop into the regular size of the beautiful moth, leaving
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: a round hole in the cocoon where both the outer
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: and inner cocoon were woven, less closely and strong than
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: any other portion. In New England, the circopia may be
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: found in the month of June. Often the larvae uses
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: a leaf in forming the outside, and after a leaf
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: dies and is blown away, the impress of the veins remains,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: making such a pretty cocoon. You can easily find them
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: during the winter months when the trees are bare, if
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: you keep a sharp watch for them. End of section thirty.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 7: Section thirty one of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 7: number five May nineteen hundred, Redfullibrivokes dot Org by Tavarish
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 7: the Genista. Professor William Kerr Higley, Secretary of the Chicago
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 7: Academy of Sciences. The green earth sends its incense up
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 7: from every mountain shrine, from every flower and dewy cup
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 7: that greeteth the sunshine.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: Whittier.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 7: The more one studies plant life with reference to its structure,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 7: its mode of growth, its uses, and the chances which
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 7: may be wrought by man to adapt it to the
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 7: requirements of his taste, the more one finds it impossible
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 7: to repress the words wonderful, beautiful, For there is no
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 7: plant so insignificant as not to have something attractive about it.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 7: The countries adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea and the inn
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 7: Indian Ocean produce a profusion of forms noted alike for
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 7: their beauty and economic value. In this region, with about
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 7: forty five sisters species, is found the plant of our illustration.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 7: Carried from its home, it is now a common decoration
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: of the greenhouse and private conservatory. Its sisters are of
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 7: economic value. Some are used for garden hedges, some to
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 7: arrest the ever drifting sands of the seashore, and some
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: to furnish a tanning principle. Cattle browse upon some species,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 7: and all contain more or less of a yellow dye
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 7: called scoparin. These plants belong to the pea or pulse
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: family Leguminose, which also includes the clovers, the peanut, the locusts,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 7: the vetches, the acacias, the bean, the lupine, the tamarind,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 7: larg wood, and licorice. It has been estimated that this
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 7: family contains over four hundred and sixty genera and about
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 7: seven thousand species. Here are grouped herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 7: the fruit of which is apart similar in structure to
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 7: that of the bean, and usually with irregular flowers. In
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 7: this family, the beasts of the field as well as
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 7: men find some of their most valuable foods, and nearly
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 7: all of the species are without harmful qualities. The name
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 7: of the family is derived from the Latin word legumen,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 7: meaning pulse. The flowers of this group of plants are
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 7: peculiarly adapted to cross fertilization. Their colors, their odors, or
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 7: their abundant nectar secreted by them attract numerous insects, and
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 7: while these little animals are providing for themselves, nature has
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 7: also provided for the best interests of the plant, as
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 7: the pollen scattered upon their bodies during their visit to
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 7: a flower is carried to another flower of like kind,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: thus causing a cross between the two plants, which results
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 7: in a better grade of seeds. The botanical name of
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 7: the genista in the illustration is Kitsus canadiensis, a native
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 7: of the Canary Islands. The origin of the generic name
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 7: Kitisus is obscure, though it is generally considered to be
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 7: the ancient Greek name of the plant, and has its
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 7: origin in the fact that the first species was discovered
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 7: on the island of Kythrus, one of the Cyclades, a
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 7: group of islands south of Greece. The specific name is
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 7: derived from the name of the island where the plant
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 7: is native. The pure yellow flowers are grouped along the
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 7: branches in terminal clusters. They are sweet scented, showy, and
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 7: frequently so numerous as to make the plant appear like
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 7: a mass of yellow blooms. The leaves are very small,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 7: consisting of three leaflets, similar in form to those of
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 7: the common clove. The surface of the leaves and of
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 7: the young twigs is covered by fine and soft hairs,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 7: causing a hoary appearance. The plant is a shrub, varying
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 7: in height from a few inches to that of a man.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 7: It bears numerous and crowded branches. Some of the other
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 7: species of this interesting genus of plants bare purple or
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 7: white flowers, and some obtain this statue of trees end
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 7: of section thirty one. This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 6: Section thirty two of Birds and All Nature, volume seven,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 6: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 6: Where vegetables came from. The customer at a Lewiston market
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 6: was in a reflective mood Saturday morning and would talk.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 6: How many of your customers know anything about what they eat?
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 6: Said he? They ought to, said the blue frock. They
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 6: buy it and they order it. I don't mean that,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: was the reply. Of course they know what they eat.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 6: But who of them know anything about the stuff? Take vegetables,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: for instance, Oh, lots of them know, said the marketman.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 6: Here's potatoes for instance. They are Native Americans. I guess
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 6: Sir Walter Rawley introduced them to Europe. I guess he
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 6: never ate one, for in his time they were not
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 6: considered fit to eat. They went to Europe from the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 6: hills of South America. And a strange matter of fact,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 6: when you come to think of it, is that in
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 6: the United States we are, barring a few sections, vegetables
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 6: grow in greater abundance and beauty than any other part
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 6: of the world. None, save maize and the ground arter
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 6: chokes are native products. Nonsense, ejaculated the amazed marketman. No
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 6: nonsense about it, continued the contemplative customer. Europe, Asia, Africa,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 6: and South America are all more richly endowed than we.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 6: I used to think that watermelon was ours. But bless you,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 6: the North African tribes grew the big juicy fellows and
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 6: gave us our first seeds. As to the muskmelon, it
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 6: is a vegetable of such lineage that, like the cabbage
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 6: and lettuce, nobody knows just who are the first wild progenitors.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 6: The melon, at any rate, came out of Persia as
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 6: a developed table delicacy, while the atom of the cabbage
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 6: family is agreed by botanists to have flourished way back
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 6: there in Central Asia, where they say the Caucasian race
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 6: came from the Romans a cabbage salad. And according to
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 6: count there are nearly as many varieties of the study
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 6: old green goods as there are different races of men.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 6: There's another Roman delicacy, continued the customer, pointing to a
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 6: box of beats. They do say that the Greek philosophers
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 6: thought a dish of boiled beets served up with salt
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: and oil a great aid to mental exercise. For my part, though,
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know a vegetable that should be prouder of
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 6: its family history than the radish. Radishes come from China.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 6: But a scientific journal the other day announced the discovery,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 6: from a translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, that Pharaoh fed his
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 6: pyramid builders on radishes. He even went so far as
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 6: to spend and one thousand, nine hundred silver talents in
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 6: order to regale his masons with the crisp and spicy root. Again,
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 6: if you read the Old Testament carefully, you will be
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 6: sure to come across the announcement that in Egypt, the
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 6: children of Israel ate melons, beets, onions, and garlic, and evidently,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 6: in traveling through the wilderness, OSes had a great deal
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 6: of difficulty in persuading them to seize yearning after these
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 6: Egyptian dainties, besides the melons and peaches and geraniums, continued
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 6: the garrulous customer, for all of which we have to
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: thank productive Persia. Watercress comes from her valleys and brooks,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 6: and she taught the world how to grow and head lettuce. However,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 6: the Roman Gormans, who adopted both these salads eat green
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 6: peas and string beans that their gardeners found growing in
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 6: France and southern Germany, and cucumbers were as popular with
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 6: them as with Jews and Egyptians, whore Arabia. Honor is
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: due for the burr artichoke. They eat it for liver difficulties,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 6: and as a matter of fact, there is no vegetable
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 6: so good for men and women who lead a sedentary life,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 6: just as carrots that grew first in Belgium are an
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 6: admirable tonic for the complexion, spinach for the blood, potatoes
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 6: for the hair, and salery for the nerves. Rhubarb, they say,
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 6: was never known until the fifteenth century when the Russians
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 6: founded on the banks of the Volga. And if you
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 6: will believe it, the only European people who appreciate the
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 6: eggplant as we do are the Turks. North Africa first
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 6: produced this vegetable. In France, it is eaten raw often
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 6: is not, and in obstinate England they use it for decoration. However,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 6: the potato had to make a desperate struggle for popularity,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: and for nearly a century after it was imported and
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 6: grown in Europe, nobody could be persuaded to touch it. Finally,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 6: parmont here gave it a boom that in two centuries
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 6: is not in the least dominic, and twice this little
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 6: tuber saved Europe for what promised to be a cruel famine.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 6: Whereupon the customer hurried off down the street, leaving the
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 6: greengrocer staring at his stock of truck with a refreshing
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 6: expression of pride and interest. End of section thirty.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 5: Two Section thirty three of Birds and All Nature, volume seven,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 5: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 5: by Betty B. Birds and Farmers. If it were customary,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 5: says a contemporary, to list such matters after the manner
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 5: of stock reports. The pages of the daily papers in
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 5: these days, suggestive of approaching spring, would contain two quotations
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 5: something like these millinery active autubonds aggressive during the cold
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: winter months just passed while its bird friends were in
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 5: the south. The Illinois Audubon Society has been working to
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: the end that the women who will flock to the
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 5: spring millinery openings already heralded, shall with resolute faces, pass
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 5: by the dainty feather decked creations, and purchase only those
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 5: which are flower crowned or ribbon deet. The directors of
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 5: the Bird Protective Society have issued within a day or
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: two a pamphlet compiled by William Dutcher, Treasurer of the
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 5: American Ornithologists' Union. It will be sent to all the
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 5: farmers institutes and to individual husbandmen by the hundreds. For
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 5: the society believes, after having tried many means of teaching
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 5: the bird preservation lesson, that the best way to get
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 5: at the milliner's and the women is through the agriculturists.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 5: The more enthusiastic Audubonites declare that when the farmers read
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 5: may mister Dutcher's leaflet, they will rise in mass and
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 5: demand that bird killing for millinery or any other purpose
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: be stopped. The husbandmen have a yearly crop interest of
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: nearly three billion dollars. The total capital invested in the
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 5: millinery trade is only twenty five millions. Mister Dutcher says
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 5: that agriculture loses two hundred million every year because of
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 5: the attacks of injurious insects. As the birds diminish in number,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 5: the loss increases, a fact which he declares is proved
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 5: beyond a peradventure. A difference of only one percent in
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 5: the value of the farm products means a loss equal
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 5: to the value of the millinery trade of the country.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, the farmer is the man
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 5: who is paying the greater part of the millinery bills
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 5: of the land. The Audubon Society, after three years of
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: active work, has come to the conclusion that appeals to
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 5: the sympathies and the the humane feelings of men and
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 5: women are not so potent as are plain statements of
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 5: facts which show how the pocket book is touched. End
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 5: of section thirty three. This recording is in the public
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 5: domain section thirty four of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven,
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 5: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 5: by Betty B. Fish have favorite haunts. One strange feature
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 5: of this sea life of the tropics is the regular
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 5: recurrence of migratory swarms of fish of very small size
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 5: that return in huge numbers year after year with such
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 5: absolute regularity that the natives calculate on the event on
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 5: a certain date in each year, and even within an
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 5: hour or two of the day, says a writer in
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 5: Lippincott's magazine. One such swarm of fish forms the occasion
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 5: of an annual holiday and feast at Samoa. The fish
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: is not unlike the white bait for which the English
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 5: Thames has so long been celebrated, and each year it
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 5: arrives in Samoa on the same day in the month
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 5: of October, remains for a day or at the most
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: two days, and then disappears entirely until the same day
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 5: the following year. Why it comes or whence, no curious
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 5: naturalist has yet discovered, nor has anybody traced its onward
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 5: course when it leaves the Samoan group. But the fact
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 5: is unquestionable that suddenly, without notice, the still waters of
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 5: the lagoon which surround each island within the fringing reef,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 5: become alive, with millions of fishes passing through them for
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 5: a single day and night, and then disappearing for a year,
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 5: as though they had never come. A visit to Samoa
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 5: enabled me to see this strange phenomenon for myself, and
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 5: to witness the natives feast by which it is celebrated.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 5: Year by year. I had been in Samoa for a month,
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 5: and in that month I had enjoyed almost a surfeit
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 5: of beauty. I had coasted the shores of its islands.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 5: I had bathed in the warm still waters of its lagoons,
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  Speaker 5: fringed to seaward by the white wreath on which the
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 5: ocean broke in golden spray into landward, by the silver
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 5: beach of coral sand, flecked with the tremulous shadows of
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  Speaker 5: the swaying palms. I had climbed with my native guide
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 5: the abrupt hills covered with dense forests of tropical luxuriance,
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  Speaker 5: through the arcades of which I caught glimpses of the
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 5: flash and luster of the ocean's myriad smiles. And again
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 5: we had plunged into deep valleys among the hills, where
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 5: little headlong streams murmur under the shade of the wide,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 5: spreading bread fruit trees, and waved the broad leaves of
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 5: the great water lilies of the Pacific Coast islands. This
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  Speaker 5: visit of the fishes came as a climax of wonders
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  Speaker 5: and of section thirty four. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 5: public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section thirty five of Birds and All Nature, volume seven,
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  Speaker 6: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 6: Dodo is the Portuguese name for simpleton, and it is
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 6: given to the silliest bird that ever lived. Three hundred
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 6: years ago, when the Portuguese first visited the island of Mauritius,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 6: they found a great number of these birds. They were
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 6: about the size of a large swan, blackish gray in color,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 6: and having only a bunch of feathers in place of
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 6: a tail, and little useless wings. More stupid and foolish
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 6: birds could not be imagined. They ran about, making a
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 6: silly hissing noise like a goose, and the sailors easily
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 6: knocked them over with their paddles. They couldn't fly, they
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 6: couldn't swim, they couldn't run at any great speed, and
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 6: as for fighting, they were the greatest cowards in the world.
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  Speaker 6: They were much too stupid to build a nest, and
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 6: so they dropped an egg in the grass and went
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 6: off and let it hatch as best it could. Added
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  Speaker 6: to all these things, its flesh was fairly good to eat,
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  Speaker 6: and the Portuguese pursued it so steadily for food that
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  Speaker 6: in less than a century's time, there wasn't a single
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  Speaker 6: dodo left in the world. It was quite too silly
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  Speaker 6: and stupid to save its own life, and so it
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  Speaker 6: became extinct. End of Section.
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  Speaker 7: Thirty five, Section thirty six of Birds and All Nature,
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  Speaker 7: Volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred, recorded forly privoxed
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  Speaker 7: Dog by Tavarish time Timus serpillum Linnaeus, doctor Albert Schneider,
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  Speaker 7: Northwestern University, School of Pharmacy. But if a pinching winter,
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  Speaker 7: thou foresea and wouldst preserve thy famished family with fraiwan
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 7: time the city fumigate virgil Georgis Dryden, four three hundred fifty.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 7: The field o wild time Timus serpilum is a small,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 7: much branched shrub about one foot high, with rather slender,
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 7: quadrangular purplish pubescent stems, leaves, small opposite sessile flowers, numerous
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 7: in clusters in the axils of the upper leaves corala purplish,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 7: irregular calyx, green and persistent. The plant is propagated by
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 7: means of underground stems. It is far from being a
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 7: showy plant. This plant is closely related to the garden
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 7: time Timus vulgaris lineus and grows profusely in meadows, fields
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 7: and gardens. Both species are very fragrant, and it is
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  Speaker 7: to this characteristic that they owe their popularity. The ancient
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 7: Greeks and Romans valued time very highly and made use
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 7: of it as a cosmetic in medicine and in veterinary practice,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 7: much as it is used at the present time. Time
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 7: yields the oil of time, which is a valuable antiseptic,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 7: used as a gargle and mouthwash for toothache, in dressing
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 7: woods and ulcers, also for sprains and bruises, in croning, rheumatism,
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 7: et cetera. It finds extensive use in the preparation of
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 7: perfumes and scented soaps, but its principal use is in
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 7: veterinary practice. The herb is much used as a flavoring
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 7: agent in soups and sauces, in fomentations in baths, and
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 7: in the preparation of scented pillows. Two kinds of oil
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 7: of Time appear upon the market, the red oil and
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 7: the white oil. The latter is less aramatic, being the
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  Speaker 7: product of redistillation. The oil is also known as oil
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 7: of origanum, although time is an insignificant plant, as far
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  Speaker 7: as appearances are concerned. It has been sung by many poets.
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  Speaker 7: In Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Oberon, the King of the Fairies,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 7: says to Robin Goodfellow, I know a bank where the
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 7: wild time blows, where ox lips and the nodding violet
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 7: grows quite over canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk roses,
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  Speaker 7: and with eglantine. Another reference to time is to be
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  Speaker 7: found in the Beautiful and pathetic Story of the Adopted
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 7: Child by Missus Hammond's The Orphan Boy, in speaking to
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  Speaker 7: the kind lady who has adopted him, says, oh, greynees
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  Speaker 7: the turf where my brothers play through the long bright
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 7: hours of the summer day. They find the red cup
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  Speaker 7: moss where they climb, and they chase the bee o'er
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  Speaker 7: the scented time. End of section thirty six. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain Section thirty seven of Birds
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  Speaker 7: and All Nature, Volume seven, five May nineteen hundred. This
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  Speaker 7: is a LibriVox recording. All liberyvox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 7: public domain. For more information, Auto Volunteer, please visit librityvox
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  Speaker 7: dot org. Recording by taversh a curious survival Ella f mosby.
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  Speaker 7: The tongue of a bird, says Missus Olive Thorne Miller,
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 7: is the tool that shows how he gets his living,
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 7: as the anvil and hammer tell of the blacksmiths work,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 7: the herd of the bricklayers, and the chisel and plane
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 7: of the carpenters. The tongue of the woodpecker is a
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 7: barbed spear, very adhesive or sticky on its surface. Know
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  Speaker 7: at a glance that he uses it to capture insects
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  Speaker 7: hiding in the crevices of the bark, and if they
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 7: are too small to be speared by its sharp point,
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 7: they will stick to its gluey surface. The four tined
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 7: fork of the little nuthatch is admirable for catching grubs
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 7: out of the rough tree trunk, and the slender tube
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  Speaker 7: of the hummingbird's tongue proves him a dainty taster of
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 7: flower sweets, though he too catches insects with the click
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  Speaker 7: of his long, sharp bill as he flies when flowers
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 7: are rare. But there is a small bird whose tongue
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  Speaker 7: does not tell his own story, his tropical ancestry of
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 7: many and many a year ago, like the hummingbird, sucked
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 7: honey from flower cups and juices from fruits, and so
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  Speaker 7: by a very curious survival of structure, this cape May
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  Speaker 7: warbler that feeds on insects now has the tongue cleft
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  Speaker 7: at the tip and provided with a fringe. Like the
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 7: iridescent and shining sunbirds, the honey creepers and flower peckers
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 7: of southern aisles, their tongues pencils of delicate filaments, brush
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 7: the drops of honeyed nectar from the deep tubes of
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 7: tropic flowers, and their sharp needle like bills probe the
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 7: juicy fruits. Though like hummingbirds, they add small insects to
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  Speaker 7: their bill of fare when necessary. This peculiarity on the
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  Speaker 7: part of the cape may is the more curious because
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  Speaker 7: all the warblers, numerous as these are, and varying as
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  Speaker 7: widely as possible in character, plumage, and habits, are alike
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 7: in one respect. They are insect eaters. Whether they are
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 7: ground warblers or haunt riverside and stream to a explore trunk,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 7: brunch and twiglike creepers, or glean their food from the leaves,
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 7: or resemble the flycatchers in habit. They live on insects, flies, ants, cankerworms, caterpillars, nets,
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 7: the larvae and eggs of insects. Nothing of this sort
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 7: comes amiss to them. Some wobblers seek this food in
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 7: the tree tops and rarely descend. Others feed on the
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 7: ground and build their nests. There many frequent lower boughs
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 7: and shrubs, but all seek insects as their prey. A few,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 7: it is true, like the eccentric chat and the pretty
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 7: gold crowned thrush, who is not a thrush after all,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 7: in spite of his speckled breast, are very fond of berries.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 7: But none retain the honeysucking habits for which the tube
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 7: like and fringe tongues and keen needlike bills were fashioned.
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  Speaker 7: There is also a queer coincidence between the nest making
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 7: of the cape may warbler and that of the flower
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  Speaker 7: peckers in the Philippines Islands. Another curious survival, mister John Whitehead,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 7: the naturalist and explorer, found a most exquisite rose colored
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 7: pouch which looked as if formed of rose petals, though
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 7: it was in fact made of other material. The little
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  Speaker 7: honeysucker had woven it together with the silken threads of
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  Speaker 7: a spider's web. Now the cape May warbler weaves his
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  Speaker 7: partly hanging nest of twigs and grass and lines it
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  Speaker 7: with horsehair in the great fir woods of the North,
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  Speaker 7: but he too fastens it together with spider's webbing. The
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  Speaker 7: cape May is a rare warbler. Doctor Rives in his
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  Speaker 7: list of Virginia birds mentions it as a rare migrant,
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  Speaker 7: though doctor Fisher says it is sometimes comparatively common in
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  Speaker 7: the fall near Washington. It was therefore a charming surprise
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  Speaker 7: when September eighteen ninety nine I found the cape maize,
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  Speaker 7: our most common migrants at Lynchburg, Virginia. From September twentieth
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  Speaker 7: to October eighteenth, our maple tree was rarely without them.
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  Speaker 7: A great deal of noisy work was going on close by,
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  Speaker 7: as the street was being widened and newly paved. But
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  Speaker 7: these tiny scraps of valor, as Emerson calls his friends
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  Speaker 7: the chickades, showed no timidity or distrust. The colors of
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  Speaker 7: the different birds varied widely. One could hardly believe that
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  Speaker 7: the adult male cape May, with his striking white on
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  Speaker 7: rich olive above and his tiger like streaks of glossy
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  Speaker 7: black on shining yellow below. His dark cap and chestnut
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  Speaker 7: red ear patches belonged to the same family as the
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  Speaker 7: immature female. She is plain grayish olive above and has
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  Speaker 7: a streaked grayish breast, as sober as a Quaker save
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  Speaker 7: for her yellow rump. The cape may, the prairie, the myrtle,
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  Speaker 7: and the magnolia wobblers are the four yellow rumped species,
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  Speaker 7: a most convenient mark of distinction. In character, our little
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 7: visitor showed energy and courage, usually driving off any newcomer,
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  Speaker 7: even of his own family, from his feeding ground. He
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  Speaker 7: geneys in mixed crowds, but prefers a table to himself,
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  Speaker 7: even one respect from English sparrows. By his pugnacious traits,
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 7: they generally let him alone, though they attacked the other
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 7: strangers unmercifully. He explored his tree thoroughly and with great agility,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 7: often spending hours in traveling from bow to bow, twig
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 7: to twig, up and down our maple, and especially examining
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 7: the underside of all the leaves within reach. Sometimes on tiptoe,
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 7: he stretched his pretty head to its farthest extent to
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 7: investigate a dangling leaf above him. Sometimes he hung head
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 7: downward to clean the eggs and larva from a leaf below.
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 7: I have seen him dexterously somersault to a lower bow,
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 7: or hold on to a slender twig, scolding and pecking alternatively,
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 7: as the wind tossed him to and fro. Occasionally he
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 7: sang a little song, rather thin and monochyness, but not unpleasing.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 7: It has been compared to the song of the Nashville warbler,
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 7: and also to that of the black and white creeper.
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 7: The cause of his long stay was, no doubt, the
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 7: abundance of insects. During our warm fall, swarms of gauzy wind.
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 7: Insects were seen everywhere, wheeling in airy circles in the sun,
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 7: and sometimes covering the wraps and hats of pedestrians. There
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 7: were crowds of birds in our parks. One sunny afternoon,
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 7: I watched with interest the likeness between a wood pewee
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 7: catching insects in the air and a flock of cape
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 7: may warblers engaged in the same pursuit. But there was
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 7: a difference. The warbler darted straight out from his magnolia tree,
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 7: caught his net, and returned whether to the same bough
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 7: I could not see, for the leaves were so thick,
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 7: but probably only nearby the true flycatcher fluttered in an
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 7: aerial circle, returning to precisely the same perch after capturing
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 7: his insect. The tiny, fringed and cleft tongues seemed useless
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  Speaker 7: in this occupation, But like some parts of the human
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 7: body for which we have not yet ascertained the present use,
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  Speaker 7: they may be invaluable as records of past history under
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  Speaker 7: different condition from those of today. End of section thirty
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  Speaker 7: seven Section thirty eight of Birds and All Nature, Volume seven,
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  Speaker 7: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 7: by Tavarish. Look at Nature. She never wearies of saying
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 7: over her floral pattern noster in the crevices of Cyclopean walls,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 7: on the mounds that build very huge cities, in the
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 7: dust where men lie dust, also still that sweet prayer
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 7: and benediction. The amen of nature is always a flower autocrat.
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  Speaker 7: The gause is yellow on the heath, the banks with
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 7: speedwell flowers are gay. The oaks are budding, and beneath
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 7: the hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, the silver wreath
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 7: of May Charlotte Smith. End of section thirty eight. This
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  Speaker 7: recording is in the public domain section thirty nine of
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  Speaker 7: Birds and All Nature, Volumes seven, number five, May nineteen hundred.
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  Speaker 7: This is a libertyvox recording. All libertyvox recordings that are
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  Speaker 7: in the public domain. For more afformation of a volunteer,
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  Speaker 7: please be to libertyvox dot org. Recording by Taver. The
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  Speaker 7: raven Corvus corax. This handsome and truly interesting bird is
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  Speaker 7: found in nearly all portions of the globe, wherever there
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 7: are wide expanses of uncultivated ground. It is a solitary bird,
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 7: living in the wildest places it can find, especially preferring
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 7: those that are intersected with hills. In such localities, it
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  Speaker 7: is said the raven reigns supreme quote scarcely the eagle himself,
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  Speaker 7: daring to contest the supremacy with so powerful, crafty and
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  Speaker 7: strong beaked a bird end quote. The raven lives almost
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  Speaker 7: entirely on foot of an animal nature, and there are
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  Speaker 7: few living things which it will not eat when the
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 7: opportunity is given. It, worms, grubs, caterpillars, and insects of
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  Speaker 7: all kinds are swallowed by hundreds, though carrion is its
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  Speaker 7: chief diet. Its wings are large and powerful, and its
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  Speaker 7: daily range of flight is so extensive that many hundreds
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  Speaker 7: of objects pass under its skin, and it is tolerably
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  Speaker 7: sure in the course of the day to find at
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  Speaker 7: least one dead sheep or lamb. So strongly is the
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  Speaker 7: desire for attacking wounded or dying animals implanted in the
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 7: breast of the raven that, according to Mudy, the best
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 7: method of attracting one of these birds within gunshot is
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  Speaker 7: to lie on the back on some exposed part of
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  Speaker 7: a hill, with the gun concealed and close at hand.
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  Speaker 7: It is needful to remain perfectly quiet, because if there
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  Speaker 7: is the slightest sign of life, the raybill will not approach.
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  Speaker 7: For Asmody rather quaintly observes he is shy of man
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  Speaker 7: and of all large animals in nature, because though glad
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  Speaker 7: to find others carry on or to make carryon of them,
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  Speaker 7: if he can do it with impunity, he takes good
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  Speaker 7: care that none shall make carryon of him. End, it
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  Speaker 7: is needful to watch carefully and not to be overcome
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  Speaker 7: by sleep, as the first intimation of the raven's approach
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  Speaker 7: would to a certainty be the loss of an eye
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  Speaker 7: The tongue of the raven is rather curiously formed, being
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  Speaker 7: broad flat, covered with a horny kind of shield, and
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 7: deeply cleft. At the extremity. At the root are four
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 7: rather large projections or spines, the points being directed backward.
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  Speaker 7: The use of the spines is not known. The cunning
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 7: of the raven is proverbal, and many anecdotes are told
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 7: of its intellectual powers. Charles Dickens in Barnaby Rudge has
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  Speaker 7: made of it an interesting character which is by no
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 7: means overdrawn. From the mass of these stories. We will
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 7: select one which is not generally known. Quote. One of
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 7: these birds struck up a great friendship for a terrier
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 7: belonging to the landlord of an inn, and carried his
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 7: friendship so far as to accompany his ally in little
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 7: hunting expeditions. In these affairs, the two comrades used to
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  Speaker 7: kill an astonishing number of hares, rabbits, and other game,
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 7: each taking his own share of the work. As soon
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 7: as they came to a covert, the raven wood station
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 7: himself outside, while the dog would enter the covert and
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 7: drive out the hares from their concealment, taking care to
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 7: send them in the direction of the watchful bird. On
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 7: his part, the raven always posted himself close to one
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 7: of the outlets, and as soon as any living creature
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  Speaker 7: passed within reach, he would pounce upon it and either
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  Speaker 7: destroy it at once or wait until the dog came
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  Speaker 7: to his assistance, when, by their united efforts, the prey
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 7: was soon killed. Rat hunting was a favorite sport of
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 7: these strange allies, and it was said by those who
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  Speaker 7: witnessed their proceedings that the raven was even more useful
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: than a ferret would have been. End Captain mac Clure,
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 7: the Arctic Voyager says that the raven is the hardiest
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  Speaker 7: of the feathered tribe, and even in the depths of winter,
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 7: when wine freezes within a yard of the fire, the
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  Speaker 7: bird may be seen winging his way through the icy
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  Speaker 7: atmosphere and uttering his strange, rough croaking cry as unconcernedly
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 7: as if the weather were soft and warm as spring time.
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  Speaker 7: In captivity. The raven ism exceedingly amusing, although mischievous creature,
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  Speaker 7: and displays a talent for the invention of mischief, which
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  Speaker 7: is only equalled by its rapidity of execution, except when
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  Speaker 7: placed in an enclosed yard where there is nothing that
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  Speaker 7: is capable of damage. Quote, a single raven will get
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  Speaker 7: through more mischief in one hour than a posse of
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 7: boys in twelve And as he always seems to imagine
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 7: himself engaged in the performance of some extremely exemplary duty,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 7: and works his wicked will as methodically as if he
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  Speaker 7: had been regularly trained to the task and very well
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  Speaker 7: paid for it. He excites no small amount of rage
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  Speaker 7: on the part of the aggrieved person. End he readily
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  Speaker 7: learns to speak and retains many sounds which he has
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  Speaker 7: once learned. The raven is nowhere abundant in Illinois. According
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  Speaker 7: to mister Nelson. It was formerly a not uncommon resident
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  Speaker 7: in the northeastern portion of the state, but now occurs
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  Speaker 7: only in winter and is rare. It frequents the sand
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  Speaker 7: hills along the lake shore from the last of October
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  Speaker 7: until spring. In winter, they unite in small flocks and
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  Speaker 7: move from place to place. End of Section thirty nine.
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  Speaker 5: Section forty of Birds and All Natures, Volume seven, number five,
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  Speaker 5: May nineteen hundred, recorded for librevox dot Org by Betty B.
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  Speaker 5: Wildflowers of May President marsh in his report to the
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  Speaker 5: Commissioners of Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts, for eighteen ninety nine
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  Speaker 5: mentions the following wildflowers as in bloom in the park
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  Speaker 5: during the month of May. We avoid the use of
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  Speaker 5: the botanical names white bloom, starflower, Canada mayflower, Shepherd's purse,
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  Speaker 5: white violet, Solomon seal, false Solomon seal, belwart, white, bainberry,
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  Speaker 5: wild strawberry, yellow bloom, yellow violet, common sank foil, golden cup, dandelion, watercress,
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  Speaker 5: pink bloom, twisted stock, wild pink, orange and red bloom, laoswart,
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  Speaker 5: blue and purple bloom, blue violet, Forget Me Not, wild geranium,
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  Speaker 5: ground ivyaneus, jack in the pulpit, wild ginger, wild pink azalea,
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  Speaker 5: Japanese hybrids, American rosemary, Parkman's crab, flowering apple, Thunberg's barbary, ashbury,
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  Speaker 5: japan ashbury bayberry, leatherleaf, American judas tree, golden chain, japan
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  Speaker 5: weeping cherry, sea, Bowlt's double red flowering, cherry, weeping wild
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 5: cherry choke, cherry, wild plum, sweet fern, flowering, dogwood, red flowering, dogwood,
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  Speaker 5: weeping dogwood, red osure, dogwood, Siberian red osure, sheep berry,
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  Speaker 5: cranberry tree, naked Viburnum, English Wayfarer's tree, common snowball, white thorn, pear,
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  Speaker 5: leaved thorn, English hawthorn, japan quince, Chinese lilac, flowering peach,
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  Speaker 5: buffalo berry, wild rose, sweet briar, rose, weeping willow, bridal wreath, tree, peone,
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  Speaker 5: flowering almond, shrub, yellow root, wild red raspberry, thimbleberry or
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  Speaker 5: black raspberry, huckleberry, blueberry, common high BlackBerry. In the June
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  Speaker 5: number of birds in all Nature, we shall give the
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  Speaker 5: flower shrubs which bloom in that month. The annual report
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  Speaker 5: of the Commissioners of Parks at Springfield is a worthy
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  Speaker 5: example for others to follow. End of Section forty This
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  Speaker 5: recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 7: Domain Section forty one of Birds and All Nature, Volumes seven,
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  Speaker 7: number five May nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot org
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  Speaker 7: by Tavarish Rice Paper. The rice paper tree, one of
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  Speaker 7: the most interesting of the flora of China, has recently
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  Speaker 7: been successfully experimented with in Florida, where it now flourishes
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 7: with other subtropical and oriental species of trees and shrubs,
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 7: says the Saint Louis Republic. When first transplanted in American soil,
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 7: the experiment has expressed doubts of its hardiness, fearing that
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 7: it would be unable to stand the winters. All these
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 7: fears have vanished, however, and it is now the universal
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 7: opinion that it is as well adapted to the climate
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  Speaker 7: of this country as to that of the famed flowery Kingdom.
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  Speaker 7: It is a small tree, growing to a height of
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 7: less than fifteen feet, with a trunk or stem from
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 7: three to five inches in diameter. Its canes, which vary
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 7: in color according to season, are large, soft, and downy,
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 7: the form somewhat resembling that noticed in those of the
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 7: caster being plant the celebrated rice paper. The product of
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 7: the square tree is four of thin slices of the pith,
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 7: which is taken from the body of the tree in
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 7: beautiful cylinders several inches in length. The Chinese workmen applied
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 7: the blade of a sharp straight knife to these cylinders,
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 7: and turning them round, either by rude machinery or by hand,
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 7: dexterously pare the pith from circumference to center. This operation
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 7: makes a roll of extra quality paper, the scroll being
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 7: of equal thickness throughout. After a cylinder has thus been paired,
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 7: it is unrolled and weights are placed upon it until
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 7: the surface is rendered uniformly smooth throughout its entire length.
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  Speaker 7: It is altogether probable that if rice paper making becomes
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  Speaker 7: an industry in the United States, these primitive modes will
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  Speaker 7: all be done away with. End of section forty one.
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  Speaker 7: This recordings in the public domain Section forty two of
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  Speaker 7: Birds and All Nature, Volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred,
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  Speaker 7: recorded for Librivoux dot Org by Tavarish, good uncle to Ants.
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  Speaker 7: A kindly old English gentleman, Sir John Lubbock, Baronet is
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 7: no more. He is not dead, but has ceased to
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 7: be a plain baronet, as were his father, grandfather and
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 7: great grandfather before him. Now he is a peer of
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 7: the realm, and he is called Lord Avebury, the new
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 7: honor lately conferred by the Queen. Sir John probably owes
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 7: to his great services in Parliament, for he is not
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 7: only the owner of a big bank in London and
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 7: a distinguished financier, but also a representative in the English
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 7: Parliament of the University of London. In both fields, his
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 7: work for his fellow men has been such as to
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 7: merit well an honor which all Englishmen are supposed to desire.
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 7: But we in America shall always remember him, not as
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 7: Lord Avebury, but as plain Sir John Lubbock, a man
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 7: who probably knows more than any other in the world
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 7: about the habits, nature and instinct of insects, especially of ants, bees,
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 7: and wasps, of which he has written more than one
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 7: interesting book. What the world needs for its happiness is
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 7: more work, more achievement. Nature, which is never at rest,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 7: sets a superb example not only of unseizing industry, but
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 7: of exquisite workmanship. For not a beetle crawls along the
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 7: ground but has a burden back of ebony or jeweled green.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 7: Not a weed by the road side goes to seed,
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 7: but hides its promise of next year's blossom in a
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 7: part of fairy delicacy. Not a spiderweb glitters in the
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 7: sun that is not marvelous in its structure. If only
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 7: the world could be more conscious of the Master of
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 7: all good workmen, there would be less heartache than there
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 7: is some little nook or sunny bower God gives to
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 7: every little flower. End of section forty two. This recording
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  Speaker 7: is in the public domain Section forty three of Birds
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 7: and All Nature, Volume seven, number five May nineteen hundred,
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  Speaker 7: Recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Tavarish A voting snail.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 7: There is a small snail which is so fond of
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 7: the sea that it never comes to land, and it
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 7: builds such a capital boat for itself and its eggs,
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 7: that while large ships are sinking and steamers are unable
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 7: to face the storm, it tosses about in perfect safety,
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 7: says the Philadelphia Press. The little snail is of a
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 7: violet color, and is therefore called iantina. It has a
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 7: small shell, and there projects from the under part of
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 7: the body a long tongue like piece of flesh. This
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 7: is the raft, and it is built upon most scientific principles,
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 7: for it has compartments in it for air. It is broad,
• 2:25:50
  Speaker 7: and the air compartments are underneath, so that it cannot capsize. Moreover,
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 7: the snail knows how to stow away its cargo, for
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 7: the oldest eggs and those which hatch the soonest are
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 7: placed in the center, and the lightest and newest on
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 7: the sides of the raft. The eantina feels its own
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 7: air compartments by getting a globule of air underneath its head.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 7: The body is then curved downward beneath the raft, and
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 7: the head being tilted on one side, the air rushes
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 7: in and fills the spaces. It feeds on a beautiful
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 7: little jellyfish, which has a flat raft like form with
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 7: a pretty little sail upon it, and they congregate in
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 7: multitudes when the sea is calm. Sometimes specimens are washed
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 7: upon the northwestern coast of France, and when they are
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 7: handled they give out a violet dye. End of section foot.
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  Speaker 7: This recording is in the public domain Section forty four
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 7: of Birds and All Nature, Volumes seven, number five, May
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  Speaker 7: nineteen hundred, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Tavaresh Egyptian
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  Speaker 7: Trees for America. Here is a new kind of tree
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  Speaker 7: with which people in some parts of the United States
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 7: will probably celebrate Arbour Day. After a while. In southern California, Arizona,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 7: and some parts of Texas, and generally speaking in the
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 7: southwestern portion of this country, are great tracts of land
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 7: without a solitary tree. The government has at last found
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 7: a tree which it is believed will grow and thrived
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 7: in these warm, dry climates, and has imported seeds and
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 7: settings with which to make experiments. It is called the
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  Speaker 7: Lebec tree and is a native of Egypt. It grows
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  Speaker 7: to a large size and has a thick foliage with
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  Speaker 7: compound leaves like those of the honeylocust. The bark makes
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 7: good dye stuff, and the wood is fair timber. One
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  Speaker 7: of the avenues leading to the Great Pyramids is lined
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 7: with these trees for a distance of four miles. They
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  Speaker 7: form a complete arch, and the shade is so dense
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 7: that no sun ever reaches the roadway beneath. In India,
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 7: these trees are called the Ciris trees. They grow wild
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 7: in the forest and their trunks attain a circumference of
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 7: nine feet. Their adaptability to the dry sections of the
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 7: United States was discovered and reported upon by David G. Fairchild,
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  Speaker 7: one of the explorers of the Agricultural Department at Washington.
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  Speaker 7: The lebec tree is a deep feeder, and therefore is
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  Speaker 7: expected to thrive on the moist subsoil found at great depths,
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  Speaker 7: even in the American desert. End of section forty four.
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  Speaker 7: This recording is in the public domain. End of Birds
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  Speaker 7: and All Nature, volume seven, number five, May nineteen hundred