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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 4, April 1902-Various · For the Birds

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Birds and Nature volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen hundred and two, recorded for LibriVox dot talk
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  Speaker 1: by Taverish. What time a year in leafless woods? The
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  Speaker 1: purpled wind flower sways and violets in penciled lines, or
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  Speaker 1: blue blossom in gentle groups and blanched of hue. The
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  Speaker 1: fern unfolds by painted orchid sprays. The columbine on hills
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  Speaker 1: and sandy brays swings to the bees and colored pollens
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  Speaker 1: true below its bells while singing soared from view. The
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  Speaker 1: meadow lark still mounts the heavenward ways I know thee
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  Speaker 1: april thine the azure mist lifted and lowered like a
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  Speaker 1: lady's veil before the rims of woodland, sunshine kissed and
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  Speaker 1: thine the lated twilight's golden sail while slanting lines of
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  Speaker 1: fire and amethyst riot in withered field and sodden swale.
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  Speaker 1: Eliza Woodworth, end of section one. This recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section two of Birds in Nature volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 2: April nineteen two, recorded for LibriVox dot org by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: Here is April cuckoo cries from the tall tree near
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  Speaker 2: the skies April. April croaks the frog from his dank
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  Speaker 2: hole in the bog. April sings the thrush again from
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  Speaker 2: his clay nest in the lane. April tis thy merry
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  Speaker 2: Weather makes the wild cult burst his tether. April, his
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  Speaker 2: royal dour, has soft sunbeam and sharp shower. April is
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  Speaker 2: the very soul of youth, eye of love, and heart
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  Speaker 2: of truth. That is April Walter Thornbury the twelve Brothers
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  Speaker 2: in the section two. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Section three of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen hundred and two, recorded for librivauxtoto by Tavaresh.
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  Speaker 1: The black chinned humming bird Trochilus alexandri to the one
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  Speaker 1: etologist who may be so fortunate as to visit southern
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  Speaker 1: California in the spring, when nature has put on her
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  Speaker 1: holiday attire and everything appears at its best, Our friends,
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  Speaker 1: the feathered midgets, will contribute not a little to the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of his stay. Benjamin T. Gould. The black chinned
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  Speaker 1: hummingbird has a long and narrow range, extending along the
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  Speaker 1: Pacific coast from southern British Columbia southward into southern Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: where it passes the winter eastward, its range extends to
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  Speaker 1: western Montana, western Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas. In
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  Speaker 1: some portions of this range it is very abundant, while
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  Speaker 1: in others that are apparently as well suited to its habits,
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  Speaker 1: it is rare or never seen at all. This hummingbird,
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  Speaker 1: which also bears the name purple throated and Alexander's hummingbird,
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  Speaker 1: is very similar in its habits to our eastern ruby throat,
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  Speaker 1: even in its call notes and anticus while wooing its mate.
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  Speaker 1: It is almost a counterpart of the eastern species. Next
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  Speaker 1: to the Anna's hummingbird, the black chinned is the most
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  Speaker 1: conspicuous of all the hummingbirds that frequent southern California. At twilight,
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  Speaker 1: it is a frequent visitor to the orange groves, and
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  Speaker 1: later as night approaches, it retires to the mountain sides,
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  Speaker 1: where with numerous individuals of its own kind and other birds,
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  Speaker 1: it finds a resting place through the dark hours. Mister B. T.
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  Speaker 1: Gould has related an interesting anecdote that occurred in his
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  Speaker 1: experience with hummingbirds. He once found a nest of the
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  Speaker 1: black chinned species in which there were eggs nearly ready
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  Speaker 1: to hatch. Wishing the nest, which was an exceedingly fine one,
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  Speaker 1: he cut the branch, only to find the eggs of
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  Speaker 1: no value as specimens. Finally finding a nest in which
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  Speaker 1: there were two fresh eggs, he took them and substituted
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  Speaker 1: the two older ones. The female bird watched this action
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  Speaker 1: from a nearby branch. Returning a few days later, he
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  Speaker 1: was surprised to find two little naked wormlike bodies in
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  Speaker 1: the nest. Naturally satisfied and pleased over the result of
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  Speaker 1: his experiment, he says, the old bird seemed pleased too,
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  Speaker 1: as she watched me from a neighboring branch while arranging
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  Speaker 1: her feathers, evidently wondering why I should take such a
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  Speaker 1: deep interest in her treasures. And well she might be pleased,
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  Speaker 1: for incubation had been robbed of all its tediousness in
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  Speaker 1: this case, and the pair, acting on this assumption, undoubtedly
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  Speaker 1: hatched another brood, But not in such haste, I venture
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  Speaker 1: to say. The nests are delicate affairs, and in many
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  Speaker 1: cases resemble small sponges, readily assuming their normal form if
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  Speaker 1: the edges are pressed together. The inner cup is seldom
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  Speaker 1: more than one inch in diameter. The walls are usually
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  Speaker 1: composed of the down of willows. This is firmly woven
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  Speaker 1: by an unsparing use of spider web. Usually a few
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  Speaker 1: small leaves and scales of willow buds are attached to
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  Speaker 1: the outer face, evidently to give it stability. It has
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  Speaker 1: been stated that hummingbirds invariably lay but two eggs in
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  Speaker 1: each set. The female black chinned hummingbird seems to be
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  Speaker 1: at least one of the exceptions that prove the rule.
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  Speaker 1: Major Ben Dyer says that nests of these species now
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  Speaker 1: and then contain three eggs, all evidently laid by the
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  Speaker 1: same female, and such instances do not appear to be
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  Speaker 1: especially rare. The black chinned hummingbird is like all the
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  Speaker 1: other birds of its kind, always inquisitive, never afraid to
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  Speaker 1: combat a foe, and always active. The lines of Jones
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  Speaker 1: very are especially applicable to its character, like thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: flitted across the mind, leaving no lasting trace behind. The
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  Speaker 1: hummingbird darts to and fro comes vanishers before we know
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  Speaker 1: end of section three. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Section four of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, four April
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  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred and two. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: liberyvox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: at a volunteer please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Tavarsh The Autobiography of an Antelope. I cannot tell you
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  Speaker 1: the exact date of my birth, as I was separated
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  Speaker 1: from my mother at a very early age. This lack
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge on my part, I think should be excused.
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  Speaker 1: But Polly has often told me it was the second
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  Speaker 1: day of April eighteen sixty six that I came into
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  Speaker 1: her possession. On that particular morning, the wind was very
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  Speaker 1: high and had a stinging bite in it, and my mother,
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  Speaker 1: after giving me my breakfast, left me nestled down in
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of tall, dry grass and went out for
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  Speaker 1: her own breakfast. I soon fell asleep. How long I
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  Speaker 1: had slept, I do not know. When I was suddenly
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  Speaker 1: aroused from my comfortable nap by a large, dark animal
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  Speaker 1: snorting right over me. Of course, I was very much
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  Speaker 1: frightened and wished my mother would come to me. If
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  Speaker 1: I had not been so shaken on my legs, I
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  Speaker 1: would have run away in search of her, But my
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  Speaker 1: feet had an uncomfortable way of getting too far apart,
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  Speaker 1: and my body seemed entirely too heavy for my legs.
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  Speaker 1: So I lay very still, hoping that this strange object
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  Speaker 1: might pass on and not disturb me. But a few
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  Speaker 1: moments later there bent over me. What I soon after
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  Speaker 1: learned was a man. Hallo. He said, here is a
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  Speaker 1: baby antelope there. Don't struggle so or you will break
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  Speaker 1: your pipe stem legs. Soon I found that it was
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  Speaker 1: useless for me to try to free myself from his grasp,
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  Speaker 1: for while he was not at all rough, he held
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  Speaker 1: me quite firmly. Then I began to shiver from fear,
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  Speaker 1: also from the cold wind. Poor little fellow, he is cold,
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  Speaker 1: the man said soothingly, and he took a blanket from
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  Speaker 1: the pommel of his saddle and wrapped it around me.
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  Speaker 1: Then mounting his horse, with me still in his arms,
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  Speaker 1: we set out across the prairie. After about half an hour,
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  Speaker 1: he stopped at a gate where there were several log
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  Speaker 1: cabins huddled together. Polly, come here, Polly, the man called,
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  Speaker 1: and the little flaxen haired girl came running from one
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  Speaker 1: of the cabins. What is it, Papa, she called, as
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  Speaker 1: she opened the heavy gate. It is a new pet
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  Speaker 1: for you, a baby antelope, and he handed me down
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  Speaker 1: to her. Polly put me on the ground and lifted
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  Speaker 1: the blanket from around me. Oh, the funny little darling,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, Papa, he is all legs and spots and
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  Speaker 1: and ears. Yes, the man replied, he will soon lose
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  Speaker 1: his spots, but his legs and ears will stay with him,
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  Speaker 1: and it won't be very long until he will show
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  Speaker 1: you how he can use those long legs of his.
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  Speaker 1: The man rode away, and Polly carried me into the house,
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  Speaker 1: where everybody handled and looked at me, all of which
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  Speaker 1: made me feel forlorn indeed, But when Polly put me
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  Speaker 1: into a box half full of nice clean hay in
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  Speaker 1: a sunny nook between two of the cabins, I felt
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  Speaker 1: that the best thing for me to do was to
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  Speaker 1: lie down and go to sleep. After a comfortable nap,
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  Speaker 1: I awoke feeling very hungry, and began to call feebly
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  Speaker 1: for my mother. But it was Polly, henceforth, my foster
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  Speaker 1: mother and beloved friend, that came in answer to my call.
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  Speaker 1: She carried me into the kitchen, where a bottle with
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  Speaker 1: a quill wrapped with a soft rag for a stopper
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  Speaker 1: was standing by the fire. Polly took the bottle and
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  Speaker 1: put the stopper into my mouth. The rag was not
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  Speaker 1: pleasant to my taste, and the quill, although disguised by
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  Speaker 1: many soft wrappings, was hard and unyielding. Naturally, I objected,
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  Speaker 1: but Polly persisted, and up after a while I got
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  Speaker 1: a taste of the warm milk that flowed through the quill.
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  Speaker 1: Then I ceased to struggle and proceeded to take my
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  Speaker 1: dinner in the only way I knew. At an early age,
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  Speaker 1: I was taught to eat corn meal and wheat brand,
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  Speaker 1: both of which I liked very much. Soon the yard
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  Speaker 1: became entirely too small for me. I longed to go outside,
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  Speaker 1: where there was room for me to use my legs,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to watching for the gate to be opened.
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  Speaker 1: Polly noticed my desire to get outside the gate, and
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  Speaker 1: one day, when I was standing near it, looking out
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  Speaker 1: through a crack in the fence, she came and put
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  Speaker 1: her arms around my neck low pears, and her voice
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  Speaker 1: had a note of sadness in it that I had
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  Speaker 1: never heard before. It is because I love you so
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  Speaker 1: that I keep you shut up in this yard. A big,
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  Speaker 1: wicked panther lives near here, and he might carry you off,
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  Speaker 1: just as he did my little Lamb. I never told
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  Speaker 1: you about it before because I did not want to
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  Speaker 1: make you feel sad and and lopers. I thought maybe
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  Speaker 1: you would feel jealous if you knew how much I
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  Speaker 1: had cared for something else. I tried to make her
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  Speaker 1: understand that I was not in the least jealous of
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  Speaker 1: the dead Lamb, also that the fact that a panther
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  Speaker 1: lived near the ranch did not allow me. I longed
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  Speaker 1: for freedom, glorious freedom, and felt that there was no
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  Speaker 1: animal of the plains that I would not willingly enter
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  Speaker 1: the lists against in a foot race. One bright morning
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  Speaker 1: soon after this, Polly's father opened the gate at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, saying to her, I am going to turn
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  Speaker 1: loppers out for a little while this morning and let
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  Speaker 1: him stretch his legs and eat some grass. Oh, Papa,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, He will run away and the panther will
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  Speaker 1: catch him. Oh no, her father replied, he will come back,
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  Speaker 1: and you need not fear the panther at this time
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  Speaker 1: of day. Caution is one of the characteristic traits of
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  Speaker 1: my family. So I approached the open gate slowly and
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  Speaker 1: stood looking out for a few moments. The ranch is
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  Speaker 1: situated on the bank of a small stream which here
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  Speaker 1: swings around, forming a deep crescent. Lying within the loop
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  Speaker 1: between the stream and the low range of hills, which
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  Speaker 1: just above the house flattens down to a ridge. Is
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  Speaker 1: a lovely valley, level as a floor, and perhaps a
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  Speaker 1: mile and a half in length at the widest point.
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  Speaker 1: It is not over three quarters of a mile wide,
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  Speaker 1: and darrows down to a point at each end of
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  Speaker 1: the crescent. When I saw this beautiful playground, my heart
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  Speaker 1: leaped with joy, and I sprang away with the fleetness
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  Speaker 1: of the wind. When I had tired myself out right
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  Speaker 1: around the valley, I came back to Polly, who still
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  Speaker 1: stood by the open gate. After this, Polly allowed me
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  Speaker 1: to go out every morning, and again late in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and a little later I had perfect freedom, going and
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  Speaker 1: coming when it pleased me. I never stayed out at night, however,
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  Speaker 1: and but seldom went beyond the beautiful valley which was
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  Speaker 1: my playground. One warm day in midsummer, Polly and her
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  Speaker 1: father came out to the live oak tree by the gate,
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  Speaker 1: in the dense shade of which I usually took my
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  Speaker 1: noon nap. Polly was carrying her little work basket and
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  Speaker 1: some bright red ribbon. Her father had a strap of
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  Speaker 1: leather and a small bright buckle. I got up at
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  Speaker 1: once and went to them, curious to know what they
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  Speaker 1: were going to do. Besides, the scarlet ribbon was very attractive.
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  Speaker 1: I soon saw that they were making me a collar.
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  Speaker 1: The strap was measured to fit my neck and then
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  Speaker 1: covered with the ribbon. Then the buckle was put on,
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  Speaker 1: and a very large bow of ribbon, which showed off
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  Speaker 1: handsomely against the white of my neck and breast, finished
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  Speaker 1: the collar. Soon after I learned the utility of this collar.
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  Speaker 1: It was early morning, and I had gone over the
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  Speaker 1: ridge and was quietly feeding. Suddenly I raised my head
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  Speaker 1: and saw a man not fifty yards away with his
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  Speaker 1: gun leveled toward me. I looked at him very straight,
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  Speaker 1: and he lowered his gun and went away. My bright
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  Speaker 1: collar had saved my life. One bright November day, I
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  Speaker 1: had gone to the top of the hill and was
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  Speaker 1: looking away over that beautiful plain when Polly came and
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  Speaker 1: stood by me, her hand resting gently on my neck.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the thought came to me that it would be
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  Speaker 1: a fine thing for Polly, and I to go away
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  Speaker 1: and live on the plains. What a free and happy
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  Speaker 1: life we would lead. We probably would find other antelopes,
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  Speaker 1: and Polly, in time, might learn to run as fast
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  Speaker 1: as I. As this idea took shape, I determined to
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  Speaker 1: try it at once, So, without giving Polly any warning,
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  Speaker 1: I sprang away and ran a short distance, then turned
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  Speaker 1: around and invited her to come on. She, thinking that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to romp, came after me. But when she
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  Speaker 1: could almost touch me, I ran away as before, and
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  Speaker 1: again she came after me, laughing with glee. This maneuver
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  Speaker 1: I repeated several times, all the time going further out
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  Speaker 1: on the prairie. At last Polly stopped and looked back.
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  Speaker 1: Then to divert her attention, I put forth all my
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  Speaker 1: efforts to draw her into a romp, first by running
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  Speaker 1: around her in a circle, and then stopping near her
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  Speaker 1: to jump up and down with my legs very still.
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  Speaker 1: This always amused her greatly, and it succeeded this time.
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  Speaker 1: She laughed and ran after me, trying to catch me.
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  Speaker 1: But I dodged first one way and then the other,
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  Speaker 1: just allowing her fingers to touch me, then slipping away
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  Speaker 1: from her. But all the time going further out on
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  Speaker 1: the prairie. At last, Polly grew tired and stopped to
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  Speaker 1: look round her. She gave a little gurgling cry of
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  Speaker 1: terror that brought me to her side at once. Oh loppers,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, loppers, I don't know the way home. It
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  Speaker 1: all looks alike, and I have forgotten which way we came.
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  Speaker 1: She clasped her arms around my neck and cried bitterly.
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  Speaker 1: Oh loppers, she wailed, don't you know the way home?
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  Speaker 1: You know, animals are smarter about such things than little girls.
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  Speaker 1: I did know the way perfectly well, and Polly's grief
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  Speaker 1: hurt me so that I was strongly tempted to lead
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  Speaker 1: her straight back to the ranch. But I reasoned that
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  Speaker 1: it had cost me considerable effort to get her this far,
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  Speaker 1: and why should I now turn back. Besides, to me,
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  Speaker 1: there was no reason why Polly should not be perfectly
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  Speaker 1: happy in this new and free life when she should
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  Speaker 1: become accustomed to it, And why should she not adapt
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  Speaker 1: herself to my mode of life as easily as I
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  Speaker 1: had myself to hers. Reasoning thus, I deliberately started in
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  Speaker 1: the opposite direction to the ranch, walking slowly with Polly
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  Speaker 1: by my side. Thus we wandered on for perhaps an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Then I stopped to graze, and Polly sank down on
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  Speaker 1: the grass to rest. But soon she sprang up, saying,
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  Speaker 1: this won't do office. We must go on and try
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  Speaker 1: to find home. Just see how low the sun is,
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  Speaker 1: And then she began to cry. We had started out
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  Speaker 1: early in the afternoon, and the warm sunshine made the
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  Speaker 1: air very comfortable. Now the sun hung a great red
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  Speaker 1: ball just above the dark line that marked the union
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  Speaker 1: of sky and plain, and the chill of evening was
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  Speaker 1: fast coming on. We wandered on, apparently the only living
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  Speaker 1: creatures on this vast plain, on and on until the
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  Speaker 1: last ray of sunlight had been swallowed up by the
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  Speaker 1: dusk of evening. The sky was thickly dotted with glittering,
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  Speaker 1: twinkling stars, and still we wandered on. A band of
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  Speaker 1: white appeared just above the eastern horizon, quickly followed by
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  Speaker 1: the moon, which filled the lonely plain with the softened
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  Speaker 1: glory of its light. And still we wandered on. After
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  Speaker 1: what seemed to me a very long time, Polly sank
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  Speaker 1: down by a bunch of tall grass, and I lay
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  Speaker 1: down close by her side. She slid her hand through
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  Speaker 1: my collar and soon fell asleep. As the night grew colder,
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  Speaker 1: polyN vest sole closer to me, and as we had
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  Speaker 1: a thick bed of dry grass, we were tolerably warm.
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  Speaker 1: Polly slept quietly, and now I too fell asleep, and
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  Speaker 1: was only awakened by the broad light of day. I
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  Speaker 1: got up and went to grazing near where Polly was lying,
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  Speaker 1: still asleep. Soon I saw a wolf go from the
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  Speaker 1: carcass of a dead cow to a pool of water
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  Speaker 1: and drink, Being quite thirsty. As soon as the wolf
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  Speaker 1: had gone away, I went to the pool myself and drank. Then,
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  Speaker 1: thinking Polly might be thirsty too, I went back to
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  Speaker 1: her and rubbed my nose against her face to wake her.
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  Speaker 1: She sat up and looked around her in a dazed
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  Speaker 1: sort of way for a few minutes, then stood up
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  Speaker 1: and strained her eyes, first in one direction and then
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  Speaker 1: in another. At last she turned to me, and I
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  Speaker 1: could see that her lips were quivering loppers. I think
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  Speaker 1: there is water where those small trees are growing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we will go and see. When we reached the pool,
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  Speaker 1: Polly knelt down and drank, and then gathered and ate
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  Speaker 1: several handfuls of red horse from the scrubby little trees
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  Speaker 1: that grew round the pool. We then started on, walking
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  Speaker 1: as fast as Polly could. We had gone on for
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  Speaker 1: perhaps two hours when I insisted upon stopping to eat
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  Speaker 1: some more grass. Polly pulled at my collar. Oh, lopis,
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  Speaker 1: come on, she said, a little crossly. If I can
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  Speaker 1: do without something to eat, surely you can too. But
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  Speaker 1: I would not go, and she sat down in the
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  Speaker 1: grass to wait for me. When we started on again,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that Polly was shivering. The sun had disappeared
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  Speaker 1: behind the misty veil of clouds, and it was much
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  Speaker 1: colder than it had been in the early morning. Later
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: in the day we came to a deep ravine. A
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  Speaker 1: few pecan trees grew ang its banks, and here Polly
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  Speaker 1: gathered some of the fallen nuts and ate them while
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  Speaker 1: I ate my dinner of grass. We found a place
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  Speaker 1: where a smooth trail crossed the gully. This we followed
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  Speaker 1: until it broadened out and was lost in the prairie grass.
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  Speaker 1: The sky was now a dull slate color, and little
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  Speaker 1: feathery flakes of snow were falling. I could see a
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  Speaker 1: dark streak in the distance which I knew must be timber.
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  Speaker 1: Instinct taught me that here we should find shelter, and
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  Speaker 1: towards this we were hurrying. Little drifts of snow were
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  Speaker 1: gathering in Polly's flaxen hair, and her hands were purple
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  Speaker 1: from cold. She stumbled, often, sometimes quite falling down, but
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  Speaker 1: she would get up and struggle on. The timber still
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  Speaker 1: seemed a great way off. When Polly stopped, it is
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  Speaker 1: no use for me to try loppers. She said, I
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  Speaker 1: can't go any further. You will have to go on alone,
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  Speaker 1: and she sank down into the snowy grass. Now this
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible fix to be in. The storm was
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  Speaker 1: growing worse every minute, and I knew that it must
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  Speaker 1: be almost night. I would run around Polly and stamp
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  Speaker 1: my feet, then rub my nose against her face, trying
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  Speaker 1: to persuade her to get up and go on, but
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  Speaker 1: she would only say, pull upers, I can't go any further.
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  Speaker 1: After a while she would not notice me. Then I
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  Speaker 1: knew she was asleep. A feeling of despair was coming
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  Speaker 1: over me. When I saw two men riding toward the timber,
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  Speaker 1: I ran out so that I was directly in their
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  Speaker 1: path and stood facing them stamping my feet. It was
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: evident that they were watching me with some interest, and
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: when they were near me, the older of the two exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: why that is Vinson's pet antelope. Roabe him, Bob, and
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  Speaker 1: we will take him home. The young man loosened a
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  Speaker 1: coil of rope from the pommel of his saddle and
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  Speaker 1: began to swing a loop above his head. But before
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  Speaker 1: the loop could descend, I sprang away and ran to
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  Speaker 1: where Polly was lying, now almost covered with snow. The
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  Speaker 1: two men stuttered on, and I ran round and round
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  Speaker 1: and stamped my feet. I was almost frantic. They stopped again,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and the younger one came to us. He got off
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: his horse and bent over Polly. Then turned and called
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to his companion, who was now coming towards us, Mister Dawson,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: here is little Polly herself, and I fear she is dead.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He lifted Polly up and shook her rather roughly, I thought, Polly, Polly,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he cried, wake up and tell me how you came here.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Polly opened her eyes and sleepily looked at the young man. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: mister Bob, she said, wearily, Lopis and I are lost.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you please take us home? Then? She leaned her
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  Speaker 1: head against him and closed her eyes again. He quickly
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: pulled off his overcoat and wrapped it around Polly and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: handed her up to the older man. Then, tying the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: end of his rope through my collar, he mounted his horse.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: When we started swiftly toward the timber. To be tied
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: was an indignity that I had never before submitted to,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: But now I was so glad to have some help
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: with Polly that I made no resistance. Very soon we
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: were at the Dawson ranch. Indeed, Polly and I, without
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: knowing it, had been going straight to the ranch and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: were not more than a mile away when she gave
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: out and went to sleep in the snow. When Polly
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: was warm and had eaten something, mister Dawson put her
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to bed, and mister Bob took me to the warm kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: where I had a nice supper of wheat bran. While
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I was eating, mister Dawson came to the kitchen and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: patted me on the neck. Brave laughers, He said, you
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  Speaker 1: saved the life of your little mistress. After a few minutes,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the young man stood up mister Dawson. He said, I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: am going to ride to Vincent's to night and let
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: him know that his child is safe. What cried mister Dawson,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: ride ten miles to this storm. You must not think
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of such a thing, yes, replied the young man quietly.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I shall go. Blackbird will carry me there safely, and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I shall only be doing as I would be done
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: by a little later I heard him ride away, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: then I went to sleep. Alice Moss Joyner.
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  Speaker 3: And of Section four, Section five of Birds and Nature,
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  Speaker 3: Volume eleven, number four, April nineteen o two. This is
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  Speaker 3: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Tila tomcik Altoona, Pennsylvania. The burrowing ow Spiotido
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  Speaker 3: cuniculara hypogea, the burrowing owl is a denizen of the
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  Speaker 3: prairies and plains west of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers.
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  Speaker 3: It is found from localities somewhat north of the United
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: States as far to the southward as Guatemala. In some
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: parts of this large area it is exceedingly common, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: it is the only represented of the owl tribe that
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  Speaker 3: inhabits in any numbers, at least the treeless regions of
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  Speaker 3: the Western States. Unlike other species of owls, the burrowing
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  Speaker 3: owl is especially fitted for a subterranean mode of life.
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  Speaker 3: It will make its home in the burrows of the
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  Speaker 3: various animals that inhabit the prairie regions. These birds are
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  Speaker 3: social and live in colonies consisting of several pairs. Some
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Indians have claimed that it retires into its burrow at
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the approach of winter, and there remains in a torpid
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: condition during the cold weather. Careful observers have, however, shown
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  Speaker 3: that this is not the case. It may be said
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: that except in the northern part of its range, where
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  Speaker 3: the winters are severe, it is resident wherever found, and
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  Speaker 3: not migratory. It is probable that it would not be
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  Speaker 3: migratory at all were it not that the animals upon
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  Speaker 3: which it feeds are not obtainable in severe weather. Investigation
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  Speaker 3: has proved that the stories of the confidential relations existing
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  Speaker 3: between the burrowing owl, the prairie dog, and the rattlesnake
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  Speaker 3: are pure fabrications of an imaginative mind, greatly strengthened by
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  Speaker 3: additions as they are passed from person to person. The
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: only foundation for these stories. Is the fact that this owl,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: and also the rattlesnake, do occasionally enter the burrows of
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: the prairie dog. Doctor cous has said that the owls
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  Speaker 3: live at ease in the settlements and on familiar terms
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: with their four footed neighbours is an undoubted fact, but
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: that they inhabit the same burrows or have any intimate
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  Speaker 3: domestic relations is quite another thing. It is no proof
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  Speaker 3: that the quadrupeds and the birds live together that they
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  Speaker 3: are often seen to scuttle at each other's heels into
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  Speaker 3: the same hole when alarmed, For in such a case
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the two simply seek the nearest shelter independently of each other.
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  Speaker 3: It is not at all strange that the snakes should
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: also enter these holes. It may be that they do
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  Speaker 3: so for the want of some other retreat on a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: broad expanse of prairie, but it is much more probable
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  Speaker 3: that they are in search of food, either in the
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  Speaker 3: form of young dogs or the eggs of the owl.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Though the burrowing owls are found with the burrowing mammals,
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  Speaker 3: they do not occupy the same holes with them, and
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  Speaker 3: do without doubt drive them out if they wish to
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  Speaker 3: pre empt the burrows for their own use. Though the
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  Speaker 3: burrowing owl probably obtains most of its food in the
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: early twilight. It is frequently in motion on the brightest days,
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  Speaker 3: capturing its prey or evading its pursuer with the greatest ease.
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  Speaker 3: Like the sparrowhawk, it frequently hovers in the air and
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  Speaker 3: drops upon its prey. Its food consists of the smaller rodents,
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  Speaker 3: including the young of the prairie dog, frogs, fish, lizards, snakes,
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  Speaker 3: and insects of various kinds. In fact, its food is
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  Speaker 3: so varied and consists of noxious animals to so great
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  Speaker 3: an extent that it is of great service to the agriculturist.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Fisher says. In summer and fall, when grasshoppers and
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: crickets are exceeding abundant on the western plains, the burrowing
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  Speaker 3: owl feeds almost exclusively on such food. Like the sparrowhawk,
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  Speaker 3: this little owl will chase and devour grasshoppers until its
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  Speaker 3: stomach is distended to the utmost. It is rare, and
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  Speaker 3: only when pressed for food that it attacks and kills
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  Speaker 3: other birds.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor C.
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  Speaker 3: S Canfilled gives the following account of its nesting habits.
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  Speaker 3: I once took pains to dig out a nest of
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  Speaker 3: the burrowing owl I found. The burrow was about four
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  Speaker 3: feet long and the nest was only about two feet
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  Speaker 3: from the surface of the ground. The nest was made
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: in a cavity of the ground of about a foot
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  Speaker 3: in diameter, well filled with dry, soft horse stung, bits
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  Speaker 3: of an old blanket and the fur of a coyote
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  Speaker 3: that I had killed a few days before. One of
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  Speaker 3: the parent birds was on the nest and I captured it.
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  Speaker 3: It had no intention of leaving the nest, even when
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  Speaker 3: entirely uncovered with shovel and exposed to the open air.
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  Speaker 3: It fought bravely with beak and claws. I found seven
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  Speaker 3: young ones, perhaps eight or ten days old, well covered
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  Speaker 3: with down, but without any feathers. The whole nest, as
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  Speaker 3: well as the birds, swarmed with fleas. It was the
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  Speaker 3: filthiest nest I ever saw. There are few birds that
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  Speaker 3: carry more rubbish into the nest than the burrowing owls,
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  Speaker 3: and even the vultures are not more filthy. In this nest,
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  Speaker 3: doctor canfilled found scraps of dead animals, both of mammals, snakes,
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  Speaker 3: and insects. Major Bendyer believes that when these owls are
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  Speaker 3: once mated, they are paired for life. He also likens
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  Speaker 3: their love note, which is heard about sundown, to the
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: call of the English cuckoo. He says that it is
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: a mellow, sonorous, and far reaching cuckoo. The last syllables
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  Speaker 3: somewhat drawn out, and this concert is kept up for
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: an hour or more. These notes are only uttered when
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  Speaker 3: the bird is at rest, sitting on the little hillock
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  Speaker 3: surrounding the burrow. While flying about, a chattering sort of
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: note is used, and when alarmed a short shrill.
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  Speaker 4: Zip.
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  Speaker 3: When wounded and enraged, it utters a shrill scream and
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: snaps its mandibles rapidly together, making a sort of rattling noise,
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  Speaker 3: throws itself on its back, ruffles its feathers, and strikes
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  Speaker 3: out vigorously with its talons and with which it can
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: inflect quite a severe wound. End of section five. Recording
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  Speaker 3: by Tila tomchek Altuna, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 5: Section six of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 5: April nineteen oh two, Recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 5: Nima Longing. I long for the wild woods and fields
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: in the spring, for the hills and the streamlets. Once more,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: I long for a sight of all nature today, when
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  Speaker 5: the drear FROs in winter is or and spring comes apace,
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  Speaker 5: and all nature in life is now quickened to action,
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  Speaker 5: more free, and the flowers are springing in valley and dell,
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  Speaker 5: and green grows a shrub in the tree. I long
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  Speaker 5: for a sight of the squirrel so gay as they
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: spring up the trees on the hill. I long for
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: a sight of the waters that flow and that sing
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: as they turn the old mill. I long for the
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  Speaker 5: songs of the birds in the grove as they sing
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: at the sweet early dawn, and to feel the great
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  Speaker 5: heart throbs of nature and glee. It is spring now,
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  Speaker 5: in winter is gone. Frank Monroe, Beverly, end of section six.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section seven of Words and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 4: April nineteen o two, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 4: Betty B. The Western pine squirrel. Many peculiar things have
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  Speaker 4: been written about the red squirrel, or what is called
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  Speaker 4: out west the pine squirrel. These frisky little animals are
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  Speaker 4: found in great numbers throughout eastern Washington. The northern part
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  Speaker 4: of eastern Washington abounds in pine forests, and those regions
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: are a favorite abode for the squirrel. Next to the
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  Speaker 4: large silver fox squirrel and the diminutive chipmunk, the pine
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  Speaker 4: squirrel is the most handsome, graceful, and interesting member of
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  Speaker 4: that numerous family found in the Northwest. He is a bright,
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  Speaker 4: sprightly little fellow. During the long, bright sunny days of spring, summer,
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  Speaker 4: and autumn, the pine squirrel makes his home out of doors.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: His life seems to be one of perpetual sunshine and pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: From early dawn to dusk, the pine squirrel is on
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  Speaker 4: the move. He is never still for an instant. You
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  Speaker 4: see him scampering up and down the great trunk of
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  Speaker 4: a pine fir or tamarack. Next he is out on
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  Speaker 4: the tip end of a long, swaying branch. Then he
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  Speaker 4: is on the ground. The next instant he is running
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  Speaker 4: along the body of some prostrate tree. He is full
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  Speaker 4: of curiosity. If you stand and watch him, he will
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  Speaker 4: return the compliment with interest. If you are perfectly still,
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  Speaker 4: the little chap will venture close and eye you very sharply.
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  Speaker 4: He is as quick as a flash, and if you
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  Speaker 4: chance to move away, he darts, uttering his peculiar, sharp
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  Speaker 4: chattering call. Rarely will you see him without something in
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  Speaker 4: his mouth. He is very dainty, however, as to what
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  Speaker 4: he eats. For all that he lives in the trees
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  Speaker 4: and on the ground, yet the pine squirrel has a
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  Speaker 4: permanent home. When chilling frosts visit the earth, and the
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  Speaker 4: snow softly descends, the little fellow whisks away to his However,
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  Speaker 4: he does not hibernate like the bear. Not he Often
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  Speaker 4: during the winter the squirrel will come out and take
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  Speaker 4: a view of the upper world. But this he does
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  Speaker 4: only when the weather is fine. He never shows himself
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  Speaker 4: when it is bitter cold and when storms prevail. The
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  Speaker 4: pine squirrel needs no butterfly existence. He has the prudent
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  Speaker 4: forethought of the ant. He enjoys life and sports in
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  Speaker 4: the sunshine, but all the while he is carefully storing
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  Speaker 4: away a good supply of food to tide him over
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  Speaker 4: the winter. His home is generally well selected, and his
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  Speaker 4: bed is soft and warm. He knows what comfort means. However,
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  Speaker 4: this squirrel has some queer ways. In some parts of
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  Speaker 4: northeastern Washington, there are a great many mushrooms and toadstools.
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  Speaker 4: The pine squirrel will spend days in gathering these peculiar
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  Speaker 4: gross and carrying them away but not to his hole.
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  Speaker 4: He will carry some of them high up into trees
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  Speaker 4: and place in the forks of branches where the wind
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  Speaker 4: cannot shake them out. Hundreds and thousands of these fungi
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  Speaker 4: will be placed in the forks of tall saplings, bushes, shrubs,
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  Speaker 4: and even weeds. Some of the toadstools are larger than
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  Speaker 4: the squirrel himself, but like the ant, he will keep
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  Speaker 4: tugging away, and finally the little fellow will land them
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  Speaker 4: where he wishes to have them placed. So far as known,
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  Speaker 4: the squirrel never eats the fungi. He does not take
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  Speaker 4: any to his hole, and after placing the toadstools in
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  Speaker 4: the brush, he does not disturb them again. The fungi
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: dries away and may be seen for several years. What
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: instinct prompts the little creature to do this is a mystery.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: I have never yet found any naturalists, trapper hunter, or
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  Speaker 4: frontiersman who could give a satisfactory explanation of the matter.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: The wood rat and magpie will steal every imaginable article
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: about a house, carry it away, and secrete it. Most
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  Speaker 4: of these articles cannot be eaten and are of no
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  Speaker 4: possible use to the rat or bird. Perhaps the pine
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  Speaker 4: squirrel is prompted by a similar instinct. The western pine
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: squirrel is a perfectly harmless and peaceable animal. He is
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  Speaker 4: not known to attack any other animal except the weasel,
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  Speaker 4: and then only in self defense. J. Maine, Baltimore, end
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  Speaker 4: of section seven. This recording is in the public.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Domain Section eight of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, four
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: April nineteen two, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by LORII Wilson.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: The Autobons warbler Dendroka audubony Autubon's warbler bears the same
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  Speaker 2: relation to the Western United States that the myrtle warbler
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: bears in the Eastern States. It inhabits the forests and
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  Speaker 2: thickets of the West from British Columbia southward as far
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  Speaker 2: as Guatemala in winter, and as doctor Cos has stated,
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  Speaker 2: it has rarely been known to pass to the eastward
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: beyond the line of arboreal vegetation which marks the easternmost
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  Speaker 2: footheels and outlined elevations of the Rocky Mountains. During its migrations,
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  Speaker 2: it is often associated with the titmouse and the ruby
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: crowned kinglet. It may be seen skipping about in the
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  Speaker 2: tree tops, actively engaged in searching for insects, which it
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  Speaker 2: will at times pursue in the air. It may be
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  Speaker 2: readily distinguished from the myrtle warbler, which it so closely
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: resembles both in habits and actions, by its yellow instead
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  Speaker 2: of white throat, which is characteristic of the myrtle warbler.
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  Speaker 2: Its nest is usually built in cone bearing trees at
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  Speaker 2: a variable altitude of from three to thirty feet. These
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  Speaker 2: homes are neatly woven and usually constructed of fine strips
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: of bark, pine needles, and twigs. They are lined with
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: fine roots, bark, fibers, hair, and fea. In Colorado, it
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  Speaker 2: is known to breed on the mountain sides at an
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  Speaker 2: altitude of nine or ten thousand feet. The habits of
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  Speaker 2: this little warbler are well portrayed by Missus Whitman, The
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  Speaker 2: little bird upon the hillside, lonely that's noiselessly along from
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  Speaker 2: spray to spray into section eight. This recording is in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain.
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Section nine of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 6: April nineteen o two, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 6: Samuel Greene. The Singaway Bird by Lucy Larcom. Have you
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  Speaker 6: ever heard of the singaway bird? That sings where the
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  Speaker 6: runaway River runs down with its rills from the bald
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  Speaker 6: headed hills that stand in the sunshine and shiver, Oh, Sing,
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: sing away, sing away, How the pines and the birches
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  Speaker 6: are stirred by the trill of the sing away bird,
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: and beneath the glad sun, every glad hearted one says
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  Speaker 6: the world to the tune of its gladness. The swift
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  Speaker 6: rivers sing it, the wild breezes wing it till Earth
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  Speaker 6: loses thought of her sadness. Oh Sing, sing away, sing away,
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: Oh sing Happy Soul to Joy's giver, sing on by
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  Speaker 6: times Runaway River, end of section nine. This recording is
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  Speaker 6: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section ten of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 7: April nineteen oh two. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 7: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 7: Colleen McMahon Spring notes from Feathered Throats in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 7: That individual unaffected by the first fluttering wings of returning
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  Speaker 7: spring migrants is an anomaly. Indeed, he must ever have
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  Speaker 7: been secluded beyond reach of trill or glint of the
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  Speaker 7: feathery kingdom or else is pitifully invulnerable to one of
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  Speaker 7: nature's chiefest charms. For who, having listened to the enraptured
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  Speaker 7: love notes and witnessed the extravagant devotion intermingled with drollest
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  Speaker 7: buffoonery during the progress of some field or forest courtship,
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  Speaker 7: is beyond feeling interest and pleasure in these half human
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  Speaker 7: and wholly unique performances. Or who has not felt a
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  Speaker 7: thrill of admiration to be followed by one of commiseration
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  Speaker 7: when one of the hunters of the air made his
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  Speaker 7: terrific plunge, hurtling down like an animated catapult to strike
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  Speaker 7: his quarry ere it found cover in wood or thicket.
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  Speaker 7: To all those having formed some degree of bird companionship,
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: and to live where winter robs them of those friends
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  Speaker 7: of the fields and woods. To such returning sprang would
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  Speaker 7: be incomplete without their coming. The earliest break in winter's
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  Speaker 7: shackles tensions their ears to listen for the first returning
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  Speaker 7: migrant's note. Of these, the last to leave and first
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  Speaker 7: to brave the still vigorous retreating winter gales, is sur Crowe,
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  Speaker 7: painted by popular disfavor even blacker than he merits his
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  Speaker 7: departing call mingled with the wild goose's honks as they
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  Speaker 7: winged southward, barely escaping the first cold wave. His call
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  Speaker 7: has mellowed with his sunny vacation. In place of the
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  Speaker 7: discordant medley echoing from the final grove convention, will come
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  Speaker 7: his spring notes, calling a domestic cadence, half musical, suggesting
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  Speaker 7: a chuckle of delight. By twos and threes, these black
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  Speaker 7: coated scouts struggle back to former frequentings in early February,
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  Speaker 7: perhaps when the ambitious sugar makers. Trying for his first run,
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  Speaker 7: he there catches his first glimpse of blue black sheep
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  Speaker 7: as the northward flier toil simily sweeps through the naked trees.
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  Speaker 7: At this inhospitable season, all of his proverbial cunnings stands
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  Speaker 7: him in good stead, and truly he is a veritable
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  Speaker 7: solon of bird wisdom. Nature seemingly compensated for his gloomy
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  Speaker 7: dress and awkward flight by bestowing almost incredible sagacity behind
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  Speaker 7: his unattractive exterior. We need not yet listen for other
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  Speaker 7: sweeter voiced arrivals, but while waiting may give ear to
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  Speaker 7: some stay at home all winter residence the chickadee and
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  Speaker 7: his crested relative, the tufted titmouse. Cheery chirpers and whistlers,
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  Speaker 7: both unconquered by the fiercest boreal blasts, the quiet, voiced
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  Speaker 7: and colored junco, the industrious creeper and nuthatch, not forgetting
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  Speaker 7: that hiding go seek climber, the downy woodpecker and his warmer,
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  Speaker 7: colored hairy relative. The woodpeckers, with their cheerful taps, trills
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  Speaker 7: and chatter, have done much to dispel the gloom of
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  Speaker 7: drear and frosty winters. But one is forgotten who, in
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  Speaker 7: nature absolutely refuses to remain unnoticed. Sir Blue Jay. Though
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  Speaker 7: an acknowledged cannibal and highwayman, he is withal so jaunty
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  Speaker 7: and attractive in everything but his voice and his habits,
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  Speaker 7: as to convince his beholders that he is not half bad.
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  Speaker 7: With February's closing days, we may listen for the heartier
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  Speaker 7: representatives of the Sparrow family, those twin aristocrats, the white
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  Speaker 7: crowned and white throated beauties, the more timid and ruddier fox,
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  Speaker 7: and the well known song Sparrow. Being unobtrusive in both
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  Speaker 7: song and garb, their first greeting may be missed, but
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  Speaker 7: the trained ear will soon catch the cheerful notes from
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  Speaker 7: hedge or rush pile. Elicited by a chasing gleam of sunshine.
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  Speaker 7: These sweet toned singers will prove a welcome contrast to
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  Speaker 7: the tiresome, incessant, complaining notes of their English cousins, who
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  Speaker 7: have spent the winner at the granary door or skirmishing
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  Speaker 7: in the garbage on the city streets. The sparrows are
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  Speaker 7: are the beginner's despair in ornithology, but are as interesting
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  Speaker 7: in habits, song and appearance as they are numerous and confusing.
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  Speaker 7: The observer, who can readily distinguish them at all, from
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  Speaker 7: the familiar household chippy to the siskins, linnets, and long spurs,
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  Speaker 7: who frequent our latitudes only as erratic winter visitors, is
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  Speaker 7: truly to be envied. With March comes that steadfast commoner,
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  Speaker 7: the robin and his warmer breasted thrush cousin the bluebird.
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  Speaker 7: The former, with his matter of fact twitter of greeting,
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  Speaker 7: soon supplements it with a bar of his hearty, if
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  Speaker 7: somewhat unpolished song, But the less intrepid bluebird will wait
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  Speaker 7: for a south wind's caress ere, his gurgle of delight
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  Speaker 7: will float earward as airily as his hovering flight. Now
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  Speaker 7: come two black coated cousins, the purple grackle and shoulder
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  Speaker 7: strapped red wing of the blackbird family. Field hunters like
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  Speaker 7: the robin, but unlike the thrushes, when on the ground,
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  Speaker 7: they are stayed walkers instead of hoppers. These dusky beauties
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  Speaker 7: no sooner announce their arrival with songless cackling notes. Then
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  Speaker 7: they hurry away to inspect their last year's nesting haunts,
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  Speaker 7: where the scrambling clamor ensues for the most desirable locations.
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  Speaker 7: Like the crow, they lose but little time in awaiting
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  Speaker 7: fine weather before preparing for housekeeping. Even before April's soft
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  Speaker 7: showers commence falling, their bristling stick nests are in readiness,
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  Speaker 7: as are the crows, jays, and hawks, while the owls
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  Speaker 7: wide eyed nestlings are even then becoming fluffy balls of
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  Speaker 7: feathers in their better sheltered hollow tree nests. But we
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  Speaker 7: must pass with but a word of greeting to the arrivals.
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  Speaker 7: Would we keep pace with their increasing numbers? Now listen
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  Speaker 7: to the purple finch as he perches on highest twig,
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  Speaker 7: proclaiming his arrival with no uncertain sound. A very torrent
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  Speaker 7: of bubbling melody is he, though his breakfast may still
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  Speaker 7: be snow and shrouded below while he rests may be
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  Speaker 7: heard the meadow lark's tremulous, plaintive diminuendo as he alights
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  Speaker 7: from his halting uncertain flight. Soon will follow the phoebe's
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  Speaker 7: name calling, tail wagging cry, and the barn swallows mumbling
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  Speaker 7: metallic squeaking his cliff or Eve's nesting cousin will a
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  Speaker 7: little later add his rasping notes as he repairs his
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  Speaker 7: plastered nest. In contrast to the swallow's rhythmic chatter, comes
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  Speaker 7: the oriole's bugle call and flute like whistle, which at
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  Speaker 7: evening was silent, but morning finds vocal with increasing numbers.
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  Speaker 7: As the mayflowers appear, come the crow chasing kingbird and
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  Speaker 7: his twin named fish Catcher, the first with happy tinkling notes,
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  Speaker 7: the second with bill chattering rattle. Again, morning hears the
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  Speaker 7: babble links ecstatic song, burst of tumultuous melody like ships,
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  Speaker 7: he passes in the night and heralds his coming is
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  Speaker 7: no other can now the whipper will proclaims his apt
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  Speaker 7: naming as evening closes in, while his nighthawk cousin booms
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  Speaker 7: an accompaniment as he wheels through the air.
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  Speaker 1: Above.
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  Speaker 7: The woodpigeon's lament comes, throbbing through the warm morning air,
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  Speaker 7: confirming his right to his other and better known mourning
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  Speaker 7: dove title to drown. The pigeons, dirged like plaint may
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  Speaker 7: now be heard the rollicking song of the goldfinch, his
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  Speaker 7: song and flight dipping in unison as he goes his
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  Speaker 7: careless way With still another contrast comes the clucking cuckoo's grumble,
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  Speaker 7: as if an excuse for his tardy arrival. Now listen
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  Speaker 7: for the chorus is complete, though but few have been named.
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  Speaker 7: They are best known, and with the unnamed larger half,
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  Speaker 7: compose nature's magnificent, if sometimes inharmonious symphony. Among those unnamed
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  Speaker 7: are to be found many fully the equals of those
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  Speaker 7: so imperfectly represented in the preceding pen pictures. In fact,
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  Speaker 7: the wood thrushes and warblers unmentioned are as finished vocal
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  Speaker 7: reformers as any of those heard in the open. Also
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  Speaker 7: in beauty and brilliancy of coloring, some of the shyer
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  Speaker 7: and more silent wood residents eclipse their brethren of the fields,
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  Speaker 7: but birds are not learned. In A day later on
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  Speaker 7: the student's eye and will begin to recognize such fleshy
• 54:02
  Speaker 7: men of colour as measures tanager toey, red start, wax wings,
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  Speaker 7: red pull, and scores of others making up the lengthy
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  Speaker 7: list of warblers, thrushes, wrens, flycatchers, and others less well known,
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  Speaker 7: especially by voice, which is often discordant in proportion to
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  Speaker 7: attractiveness of plumage. These fragmentary glimpses and sound pictures of
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  Speaker 7: our flitting friends have been attempted with the intention of
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  Speaker 7: introducing them to the ear rather than to the eye.
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  Speaker 7: Too much importance is often attached to the appearance to
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  Speaker 7: the neglect of oral attractions. Nothing can exceed the pleasure
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  Speaker 7: afforded the enthusiast in ornithology when able to readily distinguish
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  Speaker 7: his feathered friends by songs, notes, trills, and twitters making
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  Speaker 7: up their repertoires as their voices greet him when awakening.
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  Speaker 7: No calendar is needed to trace the advancing seasons. The
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  Speaker 7: new voices added to the morning chorus and its diminishing
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  Speaker 7: volume as summer departs gives audible record to the ear
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  Speaker 7: familiar with bird voice harmony. Again, when abroad in pursuit
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  Speaker 7: of duty or pleasure, a single note is sufficient to
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  Speaker 7: introduce to his ear a new or old time friend
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  Speaker 7: he well knows. The first glimpse will disclose a dull
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  Speaker 7: or bright hued coat whose owner's eyes are even then
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  Speaker 7: scanning him from some well concealed cover. If the learner
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  Speaker 7: would fully appreciate the charms of his bird acquaintances, he
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  Speaker 7: should study each individual until known, not only by appearance
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  Speaker 7: while at rest, but in every light, shade, attitude, and movement.
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  Speaker 7: And he should study his voice until it is recognizable,
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  Speaker 7: whether in full throaded song or modulated call or whistle.
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  Speaker 7: An occasional hour or vacation may accomplish much, and that
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  Speaker 7: often at our very doors. But to know these breezy,
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  Speaker 7: beautifulhabitants aright, city walls must be left behind. Museum specimens,
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  Speaker 7: except for reference, must be shunned as inert, lifeless, and voiceless.
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  Speaker 7: The bird only known by appearance is but half known.
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  Speaker 7: When known and understood, their observers become their champions, whose
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  Speaker 7: arms and voices will ever be raised to prevent their
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  Speaker 7: wanton destruction. B. F. W. Thorpe, end of section ten
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  Speaker 7: recording by Colleen McMahon.
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  Speaker 5: Section eleven of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 5: April nineteen oh two, Recorded for LibriVox dot org by Nemo.
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  Speaker 5: The Spirit of Spring. It came to me this morning
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  Speaker 5: in my room and filled my whole being with a
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  Speaker 5: subtle feeling of delight and mysterious glad expectancy. When I
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  Speaker 5: went downstairs, they told me that it was colder than yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: that the thermometer registered fourteen degrees above zero. But what
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  Speaker 5: care I for the thermometer? What does it know about spring?
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  Speaker 5: Spring is a spirit which takes possession of the air,
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  Speaker 5: yet hot or cold, and makes one's heart sing for joy.
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  Speaker 5: The crows kept telling me the glad news spring has
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  Speaker 5: come all the time I was dressing, and it was
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  Speaker 5: echoed in the tufted Tit's questioning note when he flew
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  Speaker 5: round the house to his breakfast on the window sill.
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  Speaker 5: When I started out for my morning walk, the very
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  Speaker 5: air seemed filled with tiny voices proclaiming the good tidings.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: I had not gone far before I heard a cardinal
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  Speaker 5: singing gloriously, his song answering the one in my own heart,
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  Speaker 5: and The theme was ever spring has come. But the
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  Speaker 5: crowning surprise and joy of all came when I had
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  Speaker 5: reached the brook pasture. I stopped, listened, and caught my breath.
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  Speaker 5: Could it be on the twenty seventh February, Yes, a
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  Speaker 5: song sparrow. No one who is unacquainted with the purity
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  Speaker 5: and simple charm of this bird's song, which breathes of
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  Speaker 5: all that is fair and good, can understand or appreciate
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  Speaker 5: the rapture I felt upon hearing it again. This morning,
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: going on a little farther, I heard another song sparrow.
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  Speaker 5: The two were singing by turns answering each other in
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  Speaker 5: sweetest melody. One could scarcely wait until the other had
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  Speaker 5: finished his strain, so eager were they to pour out
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  Speaker 5: the good news. Oh, if you who are tired or
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  Speaker 5: dull indoors, will only go out these mornings and fill
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  Speaker 5: your lungs with the pure air of heaven, in your
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  Speaker 5: hearts with a rapture of spring, how many of your
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  Speaker 5: cares will drop away. Nature's merriad voices will talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: If you will listen, the birds will sing to you
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  Speaker 5: the sweetest music in the world, God's love and melody.
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  Speaker 5: This joy in the beauties of nature may be yours
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  Speaker 5: if you will do not allow such a precious gift
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  Speaker 5: to escape you. It is beyond price, yet free to all.
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  Speaker 5: Each year adds to the wonder and value of nature's treasures.
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  Speaker 5: They are ever new, evermore and more welcome with each
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  Speaker 5: returning season. Happy are they who know and love them well,
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  Speaker 5: Anne Wakeley Jackson, and of Section eleven. This recording is
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  Speaker 5: in the public Daarmain.
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  Speaker 6: Section twelve of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, No. Four,
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  Speaker 6: April nineteen You Know two recorded for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 6: by Samuel Greene from an ornithologist's yearbook Flute of Arcadie
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  Speaker 6: by Ella F. Moseby. In Ohio are many wide grassy fields,
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  Speaker 6: covering the rounded hill slopes or filling open valleys. One
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  Speaker 6: day in March, the world was white with snow, and
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: I heard, as if in a dream, the soft cooing
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  Speaker 6: of the doves. Never before I heard it, except on
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  Speaker 6: sunny afternoons and pine woods rich with warm, resinuous odors.
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  Speaker 6: It hardly sound, rather sounds perceptible, blending so perfectly with
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: the sunshine, the hushed and brooding stillness of the air,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: the half conscious sense of life that I would often
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: hear it a long while, without knowing that I listened
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  Speaker 6: the soft, tremulous cooing of the wood doves. Yet here
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  Speaker 6: the earth was white with snow, and the air chill,
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  Speaker 6: But the doves were right. The spring was near, and
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  Speaker 6: in a little while the feathery grass was nodding in
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  Speaker 6: the warm wind, gray and hazy, as a great white
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  Speaker 6: cloud swept over head, with winglike shadows, or shining each
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  Speaker 6: tiny blade like burnished steel in the sunlight. The cooing
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  Speaker 6: of the doves had been only a low prelude. Now
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  Speaker 6: the air was ringing with melody. Ne'er a leaf was
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  Speaker 6: dumb around us, All the thickets rung to many a
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  Speaker 6: flute of arcadye, the fresh glad songs of the western
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: meadow larks. Everywhere, everywhere, the air was vibrant with the
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  Speaker 6: poignant sweetness of their silvery voices. Everywhere you might see
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  Speaker 6: the shining yellow of their breasts as they rose with
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: strong wing. Everywhere you might perhaps chance to stumble upon
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: some nest of woven grasses, often with arch covering, on
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: the very ground, with the dear little brownish mother bending
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  Speaker 6: over four or six wet eggs, freckled with cinnamon spots.
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  Speaker 6: It is the season of the larks, an earth and
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  Speaker 6: sky are more lovely for the magic of their singing.
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  Speaker 6: One hardly knows how to describe it in words. Spring
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  Speaker 6: of the year, Spring of the year, it seems to
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  Speaker 6: say to the listener, both in the east and west.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 6: But the song of the western meadow lark has a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 6: richer melody, more piercing delight. It seems to talk of
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: forgotten things of youth, and first hopes, first love. It
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: has all the glamour of the far away, and yet
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 6: a sweetness of the near. It rises from the thick
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 6: grass at your feet, yet it mounts towards the blue sky.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 6: It is a veritable flute of akkadi, blown with a
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  Speaker 6: breath of joy. End of section twelve. This recordings in
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  Speaker 6: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section thirteen of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 2: April nineteen two, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Larry Wilson.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: A poem by George Bancroft Griffith. The dogwood blossoms white
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: as snow, their favors now to ramblers show, and where
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  Speaker 2: the winter's latest drift through the dark glass did silent
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: sift all blossomed starred above the ground. The shy Arbutus
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: now is found. The cloud captain mountains will appear with
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: verdant slopes and summits clear. The sun has lost its
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: soulless glare. Earth, sea and sky are wondrous fair end
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  Speaker 2: of section thirteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section fourteen of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 4: April nineteen o two. Red for LibriVox dot Org by
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: Betty B. The red backed sandpiper Tringa Alpina pacifica. The
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  Speaker 4: sandpipers trip on the glassy beach, ready to mount and fly.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: Whenever a ripple reaches their feet, they rise with a
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: timorous cry. Duncan Campbell Scott sandpipers. Very early in the spring,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: the red backed sandpiper leaves its winter home in the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: states and countries bordering the Gulf of Mexico and starts
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: on its long journey to the cooler region of the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: far North. It arrives in Alaska early in May in
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: full breeding plumage, and the males are soon engaged in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: prettily wooing the koy females. Mister Nelson, who had unexcelled
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: opportunities for studying the habits of these interesting sandpipers, Well
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: describes their courting habits. He says, the males may be
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: seen upon quivering wings, flying after the female and uttering
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: a musical trilling note which falls upon the ear like
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: the mellow tinkle of large water drops falling rapidly into
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: a partly filled vessel. Imagine the sounds thus produced by
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: the water run together into a steady and rapid trill,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: some five or ten seconds in length, and the note
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: of this sandpiper is represented. It is not loud, but
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: has a rich, full tone, difficult to describe, but pleasant
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  Speaker 4: to hear. As the lover's suit approaches its end, the
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  Speaker 4: handsome suitor becomes exalted, and in his moments of excitement,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: he rises fifteen or twenty yards, and, hovering on tremulous wings,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: over the object of his passion, pours forth a perfect
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: gush of music, until he glides back to earth, exhausted
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: but ready to repeat the effort. A few minutes later.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: The female coyly retreats before the advance of the male,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: but after various mishaps, each bird finds its partner for
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: the summer, and they start off house hunting in all
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: the ardor of a rising honeymoon. The red backed sandpiper
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: is not a bird architect, and it does not build
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: even a simple home. A slight hollow on a dry knoll,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: which commands a clear view of some body of water
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: is the site usually selected. Here. The eggs are laid
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: either upon the dry grass already in the hollow, or
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  Speaker 4: upon a few bits of leaves, twigs and grass hastily
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  Speaker 4: gathered and placed without order. After the appearance of the eggs,
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  Speaker 4: the male seems to realize the responsibility of family cares
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: for his merry song ceases, and he devotes his share
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: of time to sitting on the nest, protecting the eggs
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: with his warm body. That this is the case is
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: shown by the bare patches that appear on his breast
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: at this season. With such a home, mess is prepared
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: for their reception. It is not surprising that the little
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: red backs leave the nest as soon as they are
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: hatched and freely run about. When frightened, they readily conceal
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: themselves by sitting on the ground and remaining quiet. This
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: species exhibits considerable variation in the color of its plumage
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: in the spring and summer. It may be known by
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: the black patch on the belly and reddish color of
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: its back, which is mottled with white and black. At
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: this season it is often called black breast. In the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: fall and winter, the upper parts are brownish gray in color,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: and the underparts are whitish. It is then frequently called
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: the lead back. The red back is not as active
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: as the other sandpipers, and its unsuspicious nature makes it
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: seem quite stupid. Though a beech bird, it is not
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  Speaker 4: infrequently met in grassy marshes, and by some it is
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  Speaker 4: called the grass bird. End of section five fourteen. This
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  Speaker 4: recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 6: Domain Section fifteen of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 6: April nineteen o two. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 6: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 6: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recorded by
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  Speaker 6: Samuel Green. A pansy of Heartwell. I was a pansy
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  Speaker 6: of Hartwell, A dainty little thing with gold and purple
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: petals touched with white, and leaves of tender green. A dear,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: delicate thing, but fair so, Louise said. I grew below
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  Speaker 6: her chamber window, which she prepared a rich, warm bed
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  Speaker 6: of mother Earth for me and for hundreds of my kindred.
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  Speaker 6: But none, she said, though not one of my kind
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  Speaker 6: was ever so beautiful as I. I remember my birth
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  Speaker 6: land well, our old home and heart well, where Louise
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  Speaker 6: and I were born, was surrounded by a wide, rolling
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 6: lawn filled with blooming flowers, from the time of the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 6: first peep the early march crocus, to the stately bloom
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 6: and decay of the autumn flowers. Here, too, near her
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: window grew a straight, tall maple tree, whose branches stretched
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 6: far and wide and even touched her window. I like
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: this tree because it gave us a pleasant shade when
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: the sun's rays were inclined to be too warm, and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 6: made us droop and feel so languid and so tired, delicate,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 6: dainty things as Louise and I was not of too
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: much sunshine, else we droop and die. One day I
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 6: asked Louise if this tree was old. I knew it
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: was by the many deep furrows in its bark. But
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: I loved the music of her voice so much that
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: I often ask her useless questions that I might lift
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: up my head and listen to its melody. Louise then
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  Speaker 6: told me its age, and much else that I had
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: never heard. She said that with each returning springtime, this
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 6: tree sent up the life giving sap from its roots,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 6: which ran swiftly through the trunk to the branches. Soon
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: on these branches, little red buds appeared, then a bloom,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 6: and finally leaves, and wonderful little winglike looking keys which
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: held the seeds of the maple tree. These were strange,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 6: wonderful things for me to hear, but I knew them
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: to be true because Louise told them to me. No
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: one ever doubted Louise. For all her life long she
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: had worshiped at the altar of truth. And because of
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: her truthfulness, her beauty, and her goodness, all things loved her.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: Besides giving us moisture and shade. The south wind told
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  Speaker 6: me that this same fine old tree held in its
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: forks a home for some little friends of Louise. When
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  Speaker 6: the march winds left us and the skies became clear
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: and blue and warm, her friends, the robins, would return
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: to their old home, as they had done for many
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 6: seasons past, and there, under her kindly, watchful care, would
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: raise their brood of young. One day I saw her,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: I was always watching her drop a bit of cotton
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: and several strings down from her window. The cotton fell
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: near my bed. I wondered and wondered why she had
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: done this thing. Long time afterward I was told that
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  Speaker 6: it was for the use of Mother Robin, making her nest.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 6: Father Robin thanked my dear Louise for her thoughtfulness by
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  Speaker 6: singing for her his most beautiful notes at the dawn
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  Speaker 6: the meantime in the evening. I lived in happiness in
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  Speaker 6: that quaint old town of Heartwell, caring not for its
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  Speaker 6: bright skies, wide rowing plains, its peaceful water, it's roots
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  Speaker 6: of train vine. I was young, I was happy. I
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  Speaker 6: lived near Louise, and it was all that I desired.
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  Speaker 6: I remember. But why should I tell you? I am
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  Speaker 6: only a little pansy, born perhaps for an hour or
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  Speaker 6: a day, to bloom and be gathered and die. So
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  Speaker 6: the south wind has told me. It must know. God
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  Speaker 6: gave the flowers and birds and all things for man's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 6: use and abuse, so you say, But I had thought
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: it different, for I lived in the sunshine of Louise's
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 6: love and tender care. One day, how well I remember it.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: It was a day and sunny, coquettish April, when I
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  Speaker 6: heard voices approaching. Nearer and nearer they came, until I
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  Speaker 6: felt the presence of my dear Louise with her dark
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: haired friend. I could not see them, for one of
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  Speaker 6: my sister Pansy's held her head so high and haughty
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  Speaker 6: that a little Pansies such as I could not see
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  Speaker 6: or be seen. This day, Louise was more tender than usual, alas,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 6: why is it ever true that dearest love is bought
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  Speaker 6: at the price of death and separation? She bent down
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  Speaker 6: half hesitatingly and kissed me, touched my petals lovingly, and
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  Speaker 6: whispered so gently. Only I could hear my beauty, my
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  Speaker 6: golden haired Pansy. Shall I must I give you to
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  Speaker 6: my friend? The wind gave back my answer. I was
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: sacrificed on the altar of friendship. Then I felt my
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: heart strings slowly tugged at and quivering and wounded and bleeding.
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  Speaker 6: I was taken from my home, the home Louise had
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  Speaker 6: made for me, and placed in a basket with my
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  Speaker 6: cousins the violets, to be carried to new home to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: meet new faces, perhaps make new friends. Louise and his
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: friend loved each other very dearly. Alas for me, they
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: loved Pansy's too. Perhaps it was an honor for Louise
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  Speaker 6: to have chosen me from among a hundred others, for
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: to her, a Pansy was the dearest, the daintiest, and
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  Speaker 6: the most coquettish of all the flowers that bloom and die.
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  Speaker 6: But though I felt the honor, I would a thousand
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  Speaker 6: times rather have lived to lift my petals to the
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  Speaker 6: breezes in my native land, without glory and without pain,
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  Speaker 6: or better still, death on Louise's breast. Their smiles and
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: caresses was preferable to honor and glory in a stranger's land.
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  Speaker 6: I say this was preferable, But how foolish I am.
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  Speaker 6: We Pansy's have no preference. We of the flower family
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  Speaker 6: must take what you, of the human family, choose to
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  Speaker 6: give us. This friend of Louise's, I knew not her name,
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  Speaker 6: and cared not to know, carried me very gently, with
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 6: the violets, protecting me from the sun and dust as
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  Speaker 6: we went. And when I awoke from my misery, my
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 6: long long journey, I found myself in exile with my kindred,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 6: in the far south land, where the birds are always singing,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 6: and the flowers ever blooming, and youth and beauty and
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: old age go hand in hand. It was a beautiful
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  Speaker 6: home to which I was brought. Here, I was surrounded
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  Speaker 6: withal that a pansy's heart should long for, But I
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: was not happy. I was not content. Soon my face
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: looked sad. My shining green leaves began to wither and droop,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: and the breath of the south wind became so hot.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 6: I felt as though I could not live. Then the
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: battle against death began. I longed to live that I
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 6: might see Louise once more. Then I tried to live
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: for her, to whom she had sacrificed me. I made
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: a brave struggle for life, but all in vain. It
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 6: was the battle of the week against the strong. Since
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  Speaker 6: life has left me and I've become a spirit flower,
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  Speaker 6: with my earthly body caged between the pages of a
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: musty old book, which my spirit maynt at will, Louise's
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  Speaker 6: friend often holds communion with me. It is then I ask,
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  Speaker 6: does she loved me? Or is it Louise of whom
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  Speaker 6: she thinks for whom she longs When she looks at
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  Speaker 6: me so lovingly and talks to me the Old Days
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  Speaker 6: by Laura Craven's end of section fifteen.
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  Speaker 8: Section sixteen of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 8: April nineteen o two. This is a LibriVox recording. Recordings
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 8: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 8: please visit LibriVox dot org. Garnet, this stone exhibits many
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  Speaker 8: varieties of color and of composition. The color probably most
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  Speaker 8: often thought of in connection with it is dark red,
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  Speaker 8: but it would be a mistake to suppose this is
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  Speaker 8: the only color which it may manifest. Green, red, rose,
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  Speaker 8: and brown are other colors which garnet transparent enough to
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  Speaker 8: be used as gems exhibits, while among opaque garnets may
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  Speaker 8: be found black and many varieties of the shades above mentioned.
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  Speaker 8: These variations of color are more or less connected with
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  Speaker 8: differences of composition, which it may be well first of all,
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  Speaker 8: to consider garnet as a mineral is like most minerals
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  Speaker 8: used as precious stones, acilicate united with the silica. The
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  Speaker 8: element most commonly occurring is aluminum. If calcium be united
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  Speaker 8: with these two, the variety of garnet known as grosslaret
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  Speaker 8: or essenite or cinnamon stone is produced. If magnesium takes
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  Speaker 8: the place of calcium, then pyrope is formed. If iron
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  Speaker 8: we have almondite, and if manganese spesartite. Another variety of
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  Speaker 8: garnate andridite is composed of calcium and iron in combination
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  Speaker 8: with silica, and still another uvarovite of calcium, chromium and silica.
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  Speaker 8: Though they seem to differ so much in composition, all
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  Speaker 8: kinds of garnate crystallize in the same system and are
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  Speaker 8: closely allied in all their properties, so that it is
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  Speaker 8: always an easy matter to distinguish garnate of any variety
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  Speaker 8: from other minerals. Garnate crystals may be of the twelve
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  Speaker 8: sided form known as dodecahedrons, the faces of which have
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 8: the shape of ROMs, or the twenty four sided form
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  Speaker 8: known as trapezohedrons, the faces of which have the shape
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: of trapeziums. Quite as commonly occur crystals which are combinations
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 8: of these two forms and then exhibit thirty six phases,
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  Speaker 8: as in the crystal from Alaska shown in the accompanying illustration.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes the crystals attain considerable size, some perfect ones from
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 8: Colorado weighing fifteen pounds, while crystals two feet in diameter
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 8: are reported from North Carolina. A curious feature of garnet
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 8: crystals is that of often enclosing other minerals. The garnets
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 8: from New Mexico, for instance, when broken open, are sometimes
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 8: found to contain a small grain of quartz. In the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 8: crystals from East Woodstock, Maine, only the outside shell is
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 8: garnet and the interior is calcite. Other crystals are made
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  Speaker 8: up of layers of garnet and some other mineral. Garnet
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 8: has a strong tendency to crystallize, and hence is usually
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: found as crystals. The grains of garnet found in the
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: sands of river beds and on beaches, though not often
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: showing crystal form, may be really fragments of crystals. Garnet
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  Speaker 8: is one of the most common constituents of such sands
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: because of its hardness and power of resis distinct decay.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 8: These properties enable it to endure after the other ingredients
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 8: of the rocks of which it formed a part have
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: been worn away. It is quite heavy as compared with
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  Speaker 8: the quartz of which the sand is mostly composed, and
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  Speaker 8: hence continually accumulates on a beach. While the quartz is
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  Speaker 8: in part blown away. In such localities, it will always
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 8: be found near the water line, because the waves, on
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 8: account of its weight, can carry it but a slight
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 8: distance inland. Practically all garnet is three and one half
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 8: times as heavy as water, and some four times as heavy. Garnet,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: as a rule, is somewhat harder than quartz, its hardness
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: being seven and a half in the scale in which
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 8: quartz is seven. Some varieties are, however, somewhat softer. The
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 8: hardness of garnet and its uneven fracture are properties which
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  Speaker 8: give it an extensive use for rubbing and polishing wood.
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  Speaker 8: For this purpose, it is spread upon glued paper in
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 8: the manner of sand paper, and is used similarly, but
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 8: it is superior to the latter. Most varieties of garnet
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: fuse quite readily before the blowpipe, and the globules thus
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  Speaker 8: formed will be magnetic. If the garnet contains much iron.
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  Speaker 8: The green garnet euvaravite is almost infusible. However, garnet is
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  Speaker 8: not much affected by ordinary acids, although it may be
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: somewhat decomposed by long heating. The name garnet is said
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  Speaker 8: by some authorities to come from the Latin word granadis
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  Speaker 8: meaning like a grain and to have arisen, in allusion
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  Speaker 8: to the resemblance of its crystals in color and size,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: to the seeds of the pomegranate. The German word for garnet, granat,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: is the same as the Latin word. Others think the
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 8: word derived from the Latin name of the cochineal insect,
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  Speaker 8: in allusion to a similarity in color. The use of
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 8: garnet for gem purposes seems to date back to the
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 8: earliest times. Among the ornaments adorning the oldest Egyptian mummies,
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  Speaker 8: there are frequently found necklaces containing garnet. The Romans prize
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 8: the stone highly, and it is a gem very largely
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  Speaker 8: used at the present day, its hardness and durability, and
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  Speaker 8: richness and permanency of color, giving it all the qualities
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  Speaker 8: desired in a precious stone. Two varieties of garnet, almondite
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 8: and pyrope, may exhibit the dark blood red color especially
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 8: ascribed to garnet Almandite or Almandine. Garnet derives its name
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  Speaker 8: from Alabanda, a city in Asia Minor in the ancient
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 8: district of Carria. Whence garnet was first brought to the Romans.
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  Speaker 8: The finest almandite for a long time came from near
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: the city of Syrian in the old province of Pegu
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  Speaker 8: Lower Burma. While this was the center of supply, it
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 8: is not known just where the garnets were obtained. Such
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: garnets are still known as Syrian garnets. Their color tends
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  Speaker 8: towards the violet of the ruby and gives them a
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  Speaker 8: high value. There are several localities in northern India where
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  Speaker 8: almandite is mined on a large scale, and the stone
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 8: is much used in Indian jewelry. Some of these localities
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 8: are Condopoli, Sarwar and Cacoia. Almonite is also found in Brazil,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 8: in Australia, in several localities in the Alps, and in
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 8: the United States. Stones from all these regions are found
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  Speaker 8: suitable for cutting, the only qualifications needed being sufficient size
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  Speaker 8: and transparency and good color. The almondite of Alaska shown
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 8: in the accompanying plate, occurs in great quantities near the
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  Speaker 8: mouth of the Stickeen River, but has not been extensively
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  Speaker 8: cut on account of its being too opaque. Almandite usually
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 8: occurs in metamorphic rocks such as nisses or micaschius, also
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  Speaker 8: in granite. It is also found in many gem gravels
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  Speaker 8: from the ruby. It can be distinguished, as can all
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 8: varieties of garnet, by its lower hardness and single refraction
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 8: of light. In artificial light, too, it borrows a yellow tint,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 8: rendering it less pleasing, while the color of ruby grows
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 8: more intense. Pyrope, the magnetic esian variety of garnet, does
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  Speaker 8: not differ much in color from almandite. Both are dark red,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: but while almondite tends towards a violet tone, Pyrope shades
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 8: toward yellow. Pyrope is lighter than almandite, the specific gravity
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 8: being three point seven to three point eight while that
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 8: of almandite is four point one to four point three.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 8: It is also less easily fusible. It rarely occurs in crystals,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 8: and where found in place, is always associated with the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 8: magnesium bearing rocks peridotite or serpentine. It is thus probably
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 8: always of eruptive origin. Pyrope is a characteristic constituent of
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 8: the diamond bearing rock of South Africa, and is the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 8: stone known in trade as cape ruby. These garnets afford
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 8: many excellent gems. The home of the Pyrope, however, is
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 8: and has been for many centuries Bohemia. Here it is
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 8: found in many localities, but chiefly in the northwestern part
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 8: near Teplitz and Berlin. The garnets are found in a
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: gravel or conglomi of Cretaceous age, resulting from the decomposition
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 8: of a serpentine. Sometimes, however, they are found in the
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 8: matrix and often associated with a brown opal. They are
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 8: found by digging and separated by washing. Though of good quality,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 8: the scones are small, those as large as a hazel
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 8: nut being found, but rarely. Although the Bohemian garnets have
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 8: been known for many centuries, the industry of mining and
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 8: cutting them on a large scale is said not to
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  Speaker 8: have assumed any special proportions until the advent of foreigners
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 8: to Carlsbad. In this way, a knowledge of the stones
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 8: went out to other countries and a demand sprang up,
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  Speaker 8: which has led to the establishment of a great industry
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: and made Bohemia the garnet center of the world. There
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 8: are over three thousand men employed at the present time
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  Speaker 8: simply in cutting the stones, and if to these be
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 8: added the number of miners and gold and silversmiths occupied
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 8: in the mining and mounting of the garnets. It is
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 8: estimated that a total of ten thousand persons are engaged
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  Speaker 8: in the Bohemian garnet industry. The stones are used not
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  Speaker 8: alone for jewelry and for ornamenting gold and silver plate,
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  Speaker 8: but also extensively for watch jewels and for polishing. Excellent
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  Speaker 8: pyropes are found in Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado.
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  Speaker 8: In our own country, they occur in the beds of
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  Speaker 8: streams as rolled pebbles, and are often associated with the
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  Speaker 8: green chrystollite or paridot of the eruptive rock from which
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  Speaker 8: they came. They are especially abundant about ant hills, being
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  Speaker 8: removed by the ants because their size stands in the
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  Speaker 8: way of the excavations of the busy insects. The name
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  Speaker 8: pyrope comes from the Greek word for fire, and is
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  Speaker 8: applied on account of the color of the stone. Of
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  Speaker 8: quite similar origin is the name carbuncle, a term applied
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  Speaker 8: to nearly all fiery red stones in Roman times, but
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  Speaker 8: now used to designate garnets cut in the oval form
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  Speaker 8: known as a caboshon. The word carbuncle comes from the
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  Speaker 8: Latin word carbo coal and refers to the internal fire
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  Speaker 8: like color and reflection of garnates. The calcium aluminum variety
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  Speaker 8: of garnate grosularite, cinnamon stone, or senite is less used
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  Speaker 8: in jewelry than those above mentioned. It is usually yellow
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  Speaker 8: to brown in color, but may be rose red or pink,
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  Speaker 8: as in the specimen from Mexico shown in the accompanying plate.
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  Speaker 8: The yellow grosularites resemble in color the gem known as hyacinth,
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  Speaker 8: and are sometimes sold in place of the latter, but
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  Speaker 8: true hyacinth is much heavier and doubly refracting. About the
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 8: only essenites or cinnamon stones available for gems come from Ceylon.
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  Speaker 8: These are of good size and color. Those from Italy
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  Speaker 8: shown in the accompanying plate are too small to cut
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  Speaker 8: into gems, but surrounded as they are by light green
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: chlorite and peroxene, they make very pretty mineral specimens. Grossularite
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  Speaker 8: is almost always found in crystalline limestone. Green garnets are
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  Speaker 8: of two kinds, the calcium iron garnet known as dimanoid
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 8: and the calcium chromium garnet known as euveravite. The dimanoid
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 8: garnets come only from the urals. They have a rich
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  Speaker 8: green color and make beautiful gems when good ones can
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  Speaker 8: be found. The name dimanoid refers to the diamond like
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  Speaker 8: luster which they possess. The stone is also known as
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  Speaker 8: Eurylian emerald. Euvavite, named for Count Yuvarov of Russia, also
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  Speaker 8: makes valuable gems if found in pieces of sufficient size
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  Speaker 8: and luster. It is found in Russia, in Pennsylvania, and
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 8: in Canada. Garnet has long been the birth stone of
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  Speaker 8: the month of January. By her who in this month
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  Speaker 8: is born, no gems save garnets should be worn. They
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  Speaker 8: will insure her constancy, true friendship, and fidelity. Such are
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  Speaker 8: the virtues ascribed to the garnet that the stone has
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 8: been known in use from the earliest times. I have
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  Speaker 8: already marked under the name of carbuncle. Mention is made
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  Speaker 8: of it in the literature of all ages, its impressive
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  Speaker 8: feature being usually the brilliant, fiery light which it gives forth.
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  Speaker 8: According to the Talmud, the only light which Noah had
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  Speaker 8: in the Ark was afforded by a carbuncle, and there
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  Speaker 8: are many Oriental tales regarding the size and brilliancy of
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 8: carbuncles owned by the potentates of the East. Occasionally carbuncles
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  Speaker 8: were engraved, and some fine garnet and tallios are still known.
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  Speaker 8: The great abundance of the stone in modern times has
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  Speaker 8: led to its being less highly prized than formerly, and
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  Speaker 8: to its being put to other uses than mere adornment.
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  Speaker 8: But it perhaps contributes more largely to the comfort and
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  Speaker 8: happiness of the world as it is now used than
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  Speaker 8: could ever have been the case when it was the
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  Speaker 8: property only of Kings. Oliver Cummings Farrington end of section sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Section seventeen of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen hundred and two. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All libertvox recordings are in the public domain. For more information,
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  Speaker 1: Verish Animal Emotions. Through the emotions, we are apt to
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  Speaker 1: judge ourselves somewhat superior to the animal creation, though perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a more thorough of study and interest in the smiles
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  Speaker 1: and tears of the so called creatures of lesser intelligence
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  Speaker 1: would teach us that the emotions play almost as important
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  Speaker 1: and distinctive a part in their organism as on our
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  Speaker 1: own over sensitive nerve force. I am not speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the emotion of fear and anger that is instinctive in
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: all animals, but of the more subtle motions of joy
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  Speaker 1: and grief, as visibly expressed. The older epic writers made
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  Speaker 1: much of the grief expressed by horses, and their sorrows
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  Speaker 1: have formed many an heroic verse. Merrick, in his Trifeoderus
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  Speaker 1: says he stands and careless of his golden grain, weeps
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  Speaker 1: his associates and his master slain, says Mosus. Nothing is
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  Speaker 1: heard upon the mountains now but pensive herds that for
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  Speaker 1: their masters allow, struggling and comfortless above the row, unmindful
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  Speaker 1: of their pasture and their love. Vergil, who was probably
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: more conversant with the horse and his interests than almost
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: any other writer of that far away period, thus writes
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  Speaker 1: of the sorrow of Pallas's stee to close the pomp
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: aethon the steed of state is led the funeral of
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  Speaker 1: his lord to wait. Stripped off his trappings with a
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: sullen pace, he walks, and the big tears run rolling
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  Speaker 1: down his face. In the Iliad, Homer thus renders the
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: emotion of Patroclus's war horses evinced for that hero rest
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  Speaker 1: if they stood and obstinate in woe still as a tombstone,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: never to be moved on, some good man or woman, unreproved,
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  Speaker 1: lays its eternal weight, or fixed as stands a marble
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: courser by the sculptor's hands placed on the hero's grave.
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  Speaker 1: Along their face, the big round rops coursed down with
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: silent pace, conglobing with the dust. Their manes that late
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: so tuckled their arched necks and waved in state, trailed
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  Speaker 1: on the dust beneath the yoke were spread and prone
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  Speaker 1: to earth, was hung their languid head. Shakespeare in As
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  Speaker 1: You Like It tells of the tears shed by a
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: wounded stag. The wretched animal heaved forth such groans that
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: their discharge did stretch his leathern coat almost to bursting,
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  Speaker 1: and the big round tears cost one another down his
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  Speaker 1: insoceent nose, in piteous chaise. All or nearly all animals
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: are sensitive to music, which affects them in various ways.
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  Speaker 1: And again it is sirke Speare who refers to this
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  Speaker 1: sensitiveness in even untrained horses, proving its effect to be instinctive.
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  Speaker 1: For do but no out a wild and wanton herd
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  Speaker 1: or race of youthful and unhandled colts, fetching mad bounds,
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  Speaker 1: bellowing and neighing loud, which is the hot condition of
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  Speaker 1: their blood. If they but hear, perchance a trumpet sound,
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  Speaker 1: or any air of music, touch their ears, you shall
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  Speaker 1: perceive them make a mutual stand, their savage eye turned
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  Speaker 1: to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
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  Speaker 1: There is an ancient account of the Libyan mares, to
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  Speaker 1: whom it was necessary to discourse sweet music in order
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  Speaker 1: to tame them sufficiently to be milked. And the horses
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: of the Ciberites, who have been taught to dance to
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: certain strains of music inopportunely heard the same strains of
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  Speaker 1: music on their way to battle, and very much chagrined
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  Speaker 1: their masters by stopping to dance instead of going forward
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  Speaker 1: to fight. Such was the influence of the familiar tune.
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  Speaker 1: De vere gives an account of a certain Lord Holland,
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  Speaker 1: who was very eccentric, and used, during the time of
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: William the Third to give his horses weekly concerts in
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: a covered gallery specially erected for the purpose. He maintained
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  Speaker 1: that it cheered their hearts and improved their temper, and
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: an eye witness says that they seemed to be greatly
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  Speaker 1: delighted with the performance, not at all a bad suggestion
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  Speaker 1: for owners of those horses who do not come up
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  Speaker 1: to time at the present day. A few years ago,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: according to the American Naturalist, experiments were made in Lincoln Park,
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  Speaker 1: Chicago to determine with the scientific accuracy, the effect of
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  Speaker 1: violin playing on different animals. It says, quote music which
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: was slow and sweet, like Home Sweet Home or annual Laury,
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  Speaker 1: pleased the panthers, a jaguar, and a lioness and her cubs.
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  Speaker 1: The panthers became nervous and twitched their tails when a
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: lively jeg the Irish Washerwoman was played to them, and
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  Speaker 1: relapsed into their former quiet when the music again became soothing.
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  Speaker 1: The jaguar was so nervous during the jig music that
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: he jumped from a shelf to the floor of his
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  Speaker 1: cage and back again. When the player ceased playing and
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: walked away, the jaguar reached out his paw to him
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  Speaker 1: as far as he could, his claws were drawn back.
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  Speaker 1: The lioness and her cubs were interested from the first though,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: when the violinist approached the cage, the mother gave him
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  Speaker 1: a hiss, and the cubs hid behind her. At the
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: playing of a lively jig, the cubs stood up on
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: their hind legs and peeped over at the player. When
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: the musician retreated from the cage, the animals came to
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  Speaker 1: the front of it and did not move back when
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: he gradually drew so near as almost to touch the
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  Speaker 1: great paws that were thrust through the bars. When playing Home,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Sweet Home, the entire family seemed very attentive and were motionless,
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  Speaker 1: except that the cubs turned their heads from side to side.
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  Speaker 1: Then another jig was played, and the cubs danced about.
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  Speaker 1: The coyotes in a den, squatted in a semicircle, and
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  Speaker 1: sat silently while the music continued. When it ceased, they
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  Speaker 1: ran up and poured the player through the bars. He
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  Speaker 1: began afresh, and they again formed in a silent semicircle.
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  Speaker 1: This experiment was tried several times with the same results
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  Speaker 1: end Many of us are familiar with the story of
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  Speaker 1: the man who was chased by wolves, and who climbed
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: to the rafters of an old cabin out of reach
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  Speaker 1: of the vicious fangs, but who fortunately carried with him
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: an old violin, and through its means he was able
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  Speaker 1: to hold the wolves in thrall the night through by
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: his music, until the last string of the violin snapped
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: and the brutes prepared to make an onslaught. But at
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: that moment the first gleams of the coming day appeared,
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  Speaker 1: and the wolves forsook their prey and disappeared. Much has
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: been written of the effect of music upon elephants and
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: their tempers. Gentle strains have moved them to caresses, and
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: martial music arouses them to assort of fury. It has
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: been written that the Arab than whom there is no
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: true lover of the animal creation, entertains his camel with music,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: songs and fairy tales. When the animal lags in its
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: long swinging trot, the bedouin draws his reed pipe from
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: the folds of his turban, and sharp and thrill Its
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: notes are heard far across the dusky sands, and the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: weary canal, encouraged by its notes, moves on again with
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: enlivened motion. It has often been noticed how quickly a
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: cow will distinguish a new bell, and how great a
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: disturbance is created in the whole herd. Who will often
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: take it upon themselves to chastise the unweary wearer. Devert
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: is an authority for the fact that the leader of
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: a herd of cows, when deprived of her beloved bell,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: will weep beatter tears, and says that there are many
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: instances of cows that have died when deprived of their
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: harmonious ornament. That mice have a musical ear and taste
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: is a well known fact. But the lowest type of
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: animal that is visibly affected by a strain of music
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: is the turtle. Read of that sensational tale. The household
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: of Bouverie will remember the history of the small tortoise Merodach,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: whom his master could summon at will by playing a
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: certain air on an old liar, a tale that was
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: said to be founded on fact Alberta a Field. End
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  Speaker 1: of Section seventeen.
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  Speaker 9: Section eighteen of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 9: April nineteen o two. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 9: libriyvox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 9: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 9: Luke and Darrew Durham, North Carolina, Domestic cattle in the
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  Speaker 9: beautiful Swiss Alps. In the early springtime, one hears the
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  Speaker 9: ringing of a large bell. This is rung in the
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  Speaker 9: villages and is the signal for the departure of the
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 9: herds to the alps. Above, the cows, lowing and jumping
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  Speaker 9: with delight, collect eager for departure. The finest cow of
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 9: all has the largest bell hung from her neck with
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 9: a bright ribbon, and between her horns is placed a
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 9: large nosegay of flowers. She is the leader and has
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  Speaker 9: the place of honour, and to deprive her of this
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  Speaker 9: pleasure would be cruelty. Indeed, the herdsmen begin their songs,
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  Speaker 9: the yielding sounds through the valley. The milk stools are
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 9: set between the horns of the cattle, the cheese, kettles
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 9: and provisions are packed upon the beast of burden, and
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 9: the procession gaily wends its way up the mountain side.
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  Speaker 9: Even if poorly protected from storms which may be encountered above,
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  Speaker 9: we cannot wonder that the cattle thoroughly enjoy this calm,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 9: beautiful life in the Alp. And we are told that
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 9: cows left in the valley below will often escape and
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 9: follow their companions to the distant mountains. In the United States,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 9: there are also cattle that live in outdoor life, which
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 9: have the freedom of the range and are shelterless the
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 9: year round. These are the half wild herds, which roam
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 9: over Texas, Colorado, and other western states. Although the great
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 9: cattle owners often enclose immense pastures thousands of acres in extent,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 9: so that the herds are in a measure restricted, the
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 9: smaller owners turn their castle out and allow them to
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 9: wander at will. This occasions the necessity for the yearly
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 9: round up. At a given time, the cattle of each
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 9: county are driven to a common center, confined within an
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 9: enclosure or corral, and the calves running with the cow
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 9: mother are branded with the mark of the owners. The
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 9: round up is the great event of the cowboy's life,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 9: and an interesting occasion it certainly is. The time of
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 9: the round up may consume a number of days. The
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: cowboys take their places on the outer limit of the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 9: trect belonging to their division, and with a skill acquired
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 9: by long experience, they are able to find every cow
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 9: and car, and slowly to draw the circle smaller and smaller,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: until all the cattle are congregated in one herd. Then
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 9: follows a time of work by day and merrymaking by night.
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  Speaker 9: The camp is maintained until all the cattle are branded
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 9: with the brands which are registered with the county Clerk,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 9: thus making the ownership plane to all. The cowboys, with
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 9: their broad hats frequently ornamented with the various brands of
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 9: the cattle owners, with their picturesque attire mounted on their
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: bronchos or scraggy wiry mountain ponies are interesting individually and collectively.
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  Speaker 9: Among them at the time of their round up are
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 9: often men of education and refinement, as well as others
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  Speaker 9: who know no life besides that of the plains and
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  Speaker 9: the open.
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  Speaker 6: They ride like.
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  Speaker 9: The wind, and when one road to his ranch neighbours
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  Speaker 9: thirteen miles away to execute a little commission before breakfast,
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  Speaker 9: and returned before the coffee was spoiled. My Eastern ideas
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 9: received a shock which made it necessary for me to
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 9: readjust my conception of Western life and living. Mister Brem
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  Speaker 9: tells us that the manner of life of the domestic
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 9: cattle of various countries is instructive as well as fascinating.
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  Speaker 9: He tells us that there are herds which lead the
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  Speaker 9: same manner of existence as that those belonging to the patriarchs.
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  Speaker 9: The wandering tribes of eastern Sudan are herdsmen who attend
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 9: to their duties in exactly the same way as their
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  Speaker 9: ancestors did thousands of years ago. Herds of cattle constitute
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 9: their only riches. Their wealth is estimated by the number
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 9: of their sheep and cattle, as that of the laplander
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 9: is estimated by the number of his reindeer. The greatest
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 9: of European landowners and cattle breeders, including those of Holland
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 9: and Switzerland, can hardly realize the vast numbers contained in
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 9: the herds of those nomads. Near the village of Malbs,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 9: the plain shows a deep depression at the bottom of
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 9: which a number of wells have been dug, one beside
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  Speaker 9: the other for the sole purpose of watering the herds
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  Speaker 9: congregating there during the noon hours. Beginning in the afternoon,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 9: and during the whole night far on toward noon the
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  Speaker 9: next day, nearly one hundred people are busy hauling water
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  Speaker 9: from the wells and pouring it into pools, to which
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  Speaker 9: a little salty earth is added from all sides innumerable
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  Speaker 9: herds of sheep, goats and cattle draw near, first the
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 9: sheep and goats, then the cows. In a few minutes
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  Speaker 9: the valley is filled with them. One sees nothing but
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 9: an un broken herd of animals passing back and forth,
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 9: a dark human form looming up between them. At intervals.
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  Speaker 9: Thousands of sheep and goats keep arriving, while as many
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  Speaker 9: are departing. Satisfied, I believe it impossible to count the
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 9: number of cattle. Yet I do not exaggerate if I
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 9: put down the number of animals daily congregating at the
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 9: spot as sixty thousand. In the south of Africa, the
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 9: oxen are of great importance, as without them, the extended
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  Speaker 9: trip necessary for purposes of trading and hunting through the
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  Speaker 9: vast wastes in parts entirely devoid of water and grass,
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  Speaker 9: would be impossible. In southern Russia Tartary, and probably also
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  Speaker 9: a great portion of Central Asia, considerable herds of cattle
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  Speaker 9: are kept. In fact, at the present time, there seems
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  Speaker 9: to be no country in the world where domestic cattle
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 9: are not found. They are common from Norway and Lapland
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  Speaker 9: in the north, to southern Africa and south America in
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 9: the South. Columbus first brought them to the New World,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 9: and the Spaniards transported them to South America, where they
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 9: multiplied with great rapidity. In a general way, domestic cattle
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 9: may be divided into two classes, the straight backed cattle
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 9: of Europe and the New World and the humped cattle
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 9: of India. Humped cattle may also be found in China, Africa,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 9: and Madagascar. They not only vary from other cattle by
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 9: having the hump on the withers, but they have a
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 9: different colouration, voice, and habits. They have a convex forehead,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 9: long drooping ears, and a jew lap which hangs and
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 9: folds the entire length of the neck. They vary much
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 9: in size, as the largest may stand as high as
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 9: a buffalo, while the smallest may be a little larger
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 9: than a calf a month old. They are gentle in disposition,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 9: and the larger ones are used for drawing native carries.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 9: Unlike the European cattle, they seldom seek the shade and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 9: never stand knee deep in water. These cattle are often
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 9: called ziebus and in the northern provinces of India, where
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 9: they are used for riding, they will carry a man
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 9: at the rate of six miles an hour for fifteen hours.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 9: White bulls are held peculiarly sacred by the Hindus, and
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 9: when they have been dedicated to Shiva by the branding
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 9: of his image upon them, they are thenceforth relieved from
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 9: all labour. They go without molestation wherever they choose, and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 9: may be seen about Eastern bazaars, helping themselves to whatever
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 9: dainties they prefer from the stores of the faithful. In
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 9: Central Africa, the humped cattle are represented by the gulla
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 9: or sunga. This is regarded by some as the finest
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 9: breed of the humped variety. It is large, slender and vigorous,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 9: long legged, and rather long tail. The general color is
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 9: a chestnut brown. The horns are very strong and of
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 9: fully forty inches in length. The straight back cattle are
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 9: those of Europe, America, Australia and the smaller islands, and
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 9: of some parts of Africa. They may be long horned,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 9: short horned, or hornless. Among them are very many breeds,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 9: many well known, being common almost everywhere. One is the
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 9: ox of Fryburg or the Swiss ox. This variety yields
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 9: both excellent beef and extremely rich milk. The Dutch ox
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 9: is marked by stately proportions, uniform coloring, a long, tapering head,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 9: and a long and thin neck. The colour is pied
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 9: a white or grayish ground showing red, brown or black
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 9: spots of varying size and shape. It has been bred
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 9: in Holland for centuries. It is easily fattened and has
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 9: an abundant yield of milk. The Durham or short horned
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 9: breed of England is an animal with little symmetry of proportion,
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 9: with a small head, a straight back and short legs.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 9: It is not a good milker, but surpasses all in
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 9: the production of beef. The beautiful Jersey cow is a
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 9: great favorite in America and Great Britain on account of
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 9: the rich cream and butter obtained from the milk. The
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 9: Alderneese and Guernseys are classed with the Jazzys and are
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 9: also of elegant appearance. Other breeds are the hornless Galloways,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 9: the Devons, the Herefords, the Holsteins, and many others like
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 9: the sheep, the cat, and other domestic animals. The origin
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 9: of domestic cattles seems surrounded with mystery and uncertainty. We
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 9: know that in the earliest times domestic cattle were common,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 9: as the earliest writings mentioned them and the ancient monuments
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 9: picture them. It is, however, probable that all the straight
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 9: backed varieties directly or indirectly may be traced back to
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 9: the Orox or Urus, a most interesting wild ox of Europe.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 9: This is extinct now, as well as some other species
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 9: which may form the connecting link. The orox was an
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 9: animal of great size, nearly as large as an elephant,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 9: but with the form and color of a bone. Skulls
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 9: and bones both in England and on the continent show
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 9: their characteristics, and skulls pierced by flint hatchets show that
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 9: they were hunted by prehistoric hunters. We do not know
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 9: when they finally disappeared, but in Julius Caesar's time they
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 9: seem to have been common in the Black Forest of Germany.
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 9: Old chronicles proved that they were found in the middle
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 9: of the sixth century, and in the ninth century Charle
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 9: Magne hunted the orox in the forest near Ex La Chapelle.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 9: The Niebeling and Lead mentions the slaughter of four in
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 9: the twelfth century. In classic literature, there are accounts of
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 9: contests with gigantic wild oxen, indicating that the animal's range
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 9: extended as far as south as Greece. Bones have been
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 9: found in a number of European countries, and it is
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 9: certain that it roamed over Russia, but how far to
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 9: the eastward and northward it wandered we cannot tell. There
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 9: still exist in England wild cattle known as the park oxen,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 9: though much smaller in size. They seem to be more
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 9: like a direct descendant of the arox than any other species,
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 9: although probably they descended from domesticated early breeds. These herds
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 9: are confined in private parks, and the best known at
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 9: the present time is a Chillingham herd. This park was
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 9: probably enclosed about the thirteenth century. The cattle are small,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 9: with moderately rough, curly hair. The insides of the ears
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 9: and muzzles are red, while the animals are white. They
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 9: have the character six of animals in a wild state.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 9: They hide their young, feed in the night, basking or
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 9: sleeping during the day. They are fierce when pressed, but
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 9: generally speaking are very timorous, moving off on the appearance
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 9: of anyone, even at great distance. John Ainslie end of
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  Speaker 9: Section eighteen.
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  Speaker 6: Section nineteen of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 6: April nineteen oh two, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 6: Samuel Greene, mightiest of all the beasts of chase, that
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  Speaker 6: Rome and Woody caledon, crashing the forest in his race.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 6: The mountain bull comes thundering on by Sir Walter Scott
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  Speaker 6: end of section nineteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section twenty of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, No. Four,
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  Speaker 10: April nineteen o two, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 10: David Lawrence. The arrowhead the Zagittaria latifolia. In all places, then,
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 10: and in all seasons, flowers expand their light and soul
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 10: like wings, teaching us by most persuasive reasons, how akin
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 10: they are to human things. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The arrowhead
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 10: is one of our most familiar plants, quite as well
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 10: known because of its beautiful arrow shaped leaves as for
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 10: its showy white flowers. It is interesting and conspicuous among
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 10: the rushes and sedges that abound in the suggish waters
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 10: that border lakes and streams. It must have sunshine, and
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 10: well illustrates the words of thorough quote. Rivers and lakes
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 10: are the great protectors of plants against the aggressions of
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 10: the forest by their annual rise and fall, keeping open
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 10: and narrow strip where these more delicate plants have light
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 10: and space in which to grow. Unquote. There are about
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  Speaker 10: twenty five species of the genus Sagittaria, to which the
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 10: plant of our illustration belongs. These inhabit both temperate and
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 10: tropical regions. The generic name is from the Latin word sagitta,
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 10: meaning an arrow, and referring, as does the common name,
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  Speaker 10: to the shape of the leaf. When the arrowhead grows
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 10: in water, leaves are produced under water that do not
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 10: have the arrow shape. These are not produced on those
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 10: plants that grow on wet muddy banks. Two kinds of
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 10: flowers are produced by this plant, the male and the female.
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  Speaker 10: The male flowers are the large white ones with the
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 10: golden center formed by the group of yellow stamens. The
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 10: female flowers are lower on the flower stalk and are dull, green,
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  Speaker 10: and unattractive. This arrangement of the flowers is nature's provision
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  Speaker 10: for preventing self fertilization. The insects that visit these flowers
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 10: naturally first delight on the more brilliant staminant flowers and
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 10: the pollen adhering to their bodies is later transferred to
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 10: the seed producing flowers when the insects visit them. Though
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  Speaker 10: the two flowers are usually upon the same plant, they
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 10: are sometimes developed on distinct plants. The arrowhead beautifies the
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  Speaker 10: swampy regions of North America from Mexico northward. End of
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  Speaker 10: section twenty. This recording is in the public domain Section
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  Speaker 10: twenty one of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 10: April nineteen o two, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 10: David Lawrence. The black cohosh Simisufujia riismosa, the black cohosh
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 10: or black snake root grows in rich woods from Canada
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 10: nearly to the Gulf of Mexico. It is a conspicuous
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 10: plant with its long stem, which sometimes grows to a
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 10: height of eight feet, and its large compound leaves, as
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 10: well as with its long raceme of numerous small white flowers.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 10: This raceme, during the ripening of the fruit, often acquires
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 10: a length of two to three feet. This plant is
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  Speaker 10: sometimes called bugbane. The name simisufuja is from the Latin
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 10: word simix a bug and fujo to drive away. Both
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  Speaker 10: the technical name and then the name bugbane allude to
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  Speaker 10: the offensive odor of the flowers, which was supposed to
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  Speaker 10: drive away insects. In fact, the black cohosh is held
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 10: at high repute by some Indians as a cure for
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 10: the bite of poisonous snakes, as well as a powerful
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 10: aid in driving away insects, were it not for the strong,
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 10: disagreeable odour of the flowers, which are only frequented by
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 10: those flies which enjoy the odour of carrion. With its
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  Speaker 10: quote tall white rockets shooting upward from a mass of large,
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 10: handsome leaves unquote, it would be a striking ornament for
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  Speaker 10: the flower garden. Someone has said that the black cohosh
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 10: quote may truly be classed among those objects which, from
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  Speaker 10: the standpoint of frail humanity, distance lends enchantment unquote. Though
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 10: this be true, may we not say, with Wordsworth to me,
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  Speaker 10: the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 10: often lie too deep for tears. End of section twenty one.
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  Speaker 10: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section twenty two of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 5: April nineteen o two, recorded for librevox dot Org by Nemo.
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  Speaker 5: The very darkness descends in shadowy folds over the distant hills.
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 5: The breeze shivers and stirs in the leafy trees, and
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: a single star beholds the brook murmurs low in the
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 5: tangled cops. The jewel weed stands with its feet in
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 5: the stream by my lantern light. The dewdrops gleam on
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 5: the leaves like diamond drops, and low like the shuddering wind,
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 5: stirred leaves, like the trembling weed, where the waters glide.
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  Speaker 5: A voice from the depths where the wood birds hide,
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: Its thrilling melody weaves, what shakes the harpstrings in thy throat?
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 5: Is it joy or woe? Is it love or fear?
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  Speaker 5: The mystery of the woods? I hear in the passion
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: of your note. Do you cry woe? Woe? Do you
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 5: cry rejoice? Joy and sorrow? No longer twain hope and
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 5: despair in one wild strain, And the night has found
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 5: a voice. Isabella T. M. Blake end of section twenty two.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Section twenty three of Birds in Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 11: April nineteen o two. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 11: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 11: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 11: Andrea Kay the spring migration in central Mississippi. In the
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  Speaker 11: former article under this title, attention was paid to the warblers. Only.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 11: In the present one, I will try to give you
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 11: some idea of the other birds that, in spring take
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 11: part in this general movement northward. A few birds that
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 11: cannot properly be classed among the winter residents visit us
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 11: now and then on warm summery days in January and February.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 11: They may be called the advance guard of the great
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 11: army of migration. Conspicuous among these are the bluebird and
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 11: the hermit thrush, two birds closely related but very different,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 11: both in coloring and disposition. The the bluebird is one
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 11: of the first birds to be learned by the country children.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 11: His bright colors, cheerful music, and affectionate, trusting disposition make
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 11: him a general favorite. Right here, permit me to digress
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 11: enough to say that too little encouragement is given the
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 11: children of our public schools, especially in the country, to
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 11: learn the names and habits of our common birds. A
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 11: little time and effort judiciously expended by the teacher in
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 11: guiding the pupils to an understanding and love of the
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 11: bird life about them would be an investment paying large
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 11: dividends in quickened perceptions and increased interest in the too
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 11: often dull and distasteful round of schoolwork. The hermit thrush
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 11: is a lover of the deep dark shades, where he
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 11: can sit on a twig and watch the stirring life
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 11: about him without being a part of it. A kind
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 11: of chimney corner philosopher. If you please, the rufous tail,
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 11: in sharp contrast to the olive brown head and back
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 11: will tell you his name every time, for he is
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 11: the only member of the thrush family found in these
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 11: regions in which the color of the tail differs materially
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 11: from that of the back. I remember one afternoon in
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 11: February seeing one in the shade of a thick topped holly.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 11: Here he remained quite unconscious while we peered at him
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 11: through the opera glass, discussed his coloring, and consulted the
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 11: pocket Manual to see what Chapman said about him. An
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 11: occasional jerk of the tail or a slight movement of
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 11: the head, being the only indication of life in the
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 11: graceful figure before us. Late in March or early in April,
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 11: come the purple martin, the bank swallow and chimney swift,
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 11: all cheerful birds whose only apparent aim in life is
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 11: to sail about through the air in pursuit of gnats
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 11: and flies. The noisy chatter of the martins as they
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 11: wheel and turn about near the house is one of
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 11: the most agreeable sounds in all the gamut of bird voices.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 11: They are very numerous in parts of Mississippi, but the
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 11: only place in the North where I have ever seen
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 11: them in any considerable numbers is on the Maumee, not
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 11: far from the little town of Waterville, Ohio. The bank
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 11: swallow and chimney swift are smaller and less conspicuous than
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 11: the martin, less noisy, but quite as useful. Soon after
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 11: the swallows appear the flycatchers, the tyrant wood peewee, phoebe bird,
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 11: Acadian and great crested. What figure is more familiar on
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 11: hot summer days than the kingbird or tyrant flycatcher perched
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 11: on a mullinstock now and then darting down from his
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 11: perch to capture some straying gnat. The Acadian stops for
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 11: only a very short stay. You will find him in
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 11: the deepest shades, where the gloom and dampness suit his
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 11: somber fancy. The wood peewee is also a gloomy soul,
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 11: possessing no gift of color or song to a track
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 11: the eye or hold the fancy. His long, drawn out,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 11: monotonous note always reminds me of hot August afternoons, when
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 11: all other bird voices are silent as the grave and
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 11: summer raigns with undisputed sway. The prince of woodland flycatchers,
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 11: both from point of coloring and attractive personality, is the
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 11: great Crested. His olive brown back, whitish breast, and sulfur
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 11: yellow belly give him a more brilliant appearance than the
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 11: others just mentioned. His character, too, is better, for he
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 11: is neither as belligerent as the kingbird or as gloomy
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 11: as the Acadian and wood peewee. His call is not unmelodious,
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 11: though it would be misleading to call it a song.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 11: April brings the orioles to play their not insignificant part
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 11: in the great color scheme of nature. At this resurrection season,
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 11: I always associate the coming of the orchard oriole with
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 11: the opening of the chickasaw rdses, and the arrival of
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 11: the Baltimore with the blooming of the yellow poplar Leriodendron
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 11: to Lepiphera. For several seasons, I caught my first glimpse
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 11: of the Baltimore's flame and black in the top of
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 11: a tall poplar, and heard his cheery whistle as he
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 11: dodged in and out among the great cups, making a
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 11: breakfast on the insects whose hum made the whole woods drowsy.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 11: A few brief days of rest and pleasure in this
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 11: land of flowers, and the orioles are gone except a
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 11: few pairs that stay to rear their families in these solitudes.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 11: A long, slim brown body, a stealthy way of sliding
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 11: in and out among the vines and limbs, and a shy,
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 11: suspicious air mark. The black billed cuckoo or rain crow.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 11: He too stays but a few days. When you see
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 11: the rain crow, it is time to look for the
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 11: Wilson's thrush. But it was never my privilege to hear
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 11: him say in these forests. Perhaps he is tired out
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 11: with the long journey from the land of eternal summer
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 11: and wishes to be seen not heard. Writers tell us
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 11: that this thrush is very plentiful in certain localities, but
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 11: in this section of the South I saw only two
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 11: specimens in four years. The musician of the thrush family,
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 11: of the whole woods, for that matter, in some points.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 11: A successful rival of the mocking bird is the wood thrush.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 11: Dark cinnamon brown, of quite a uniform tint above and
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 11: white breast spotted with round black or dark brown, enable
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 11: one to pick him out easily from the rest of
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 11: the thrush family. I remember hearing one sing at a
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 11: Negro baptizing just at sunset of an April day, after
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 11: the immersion had taken place. As the officiating elder led
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 11: the candidate to the bank of the pond, clear Negro
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 11: voices raised one of the good old hymns. As the
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 11: words of the last verse died away on the evening air,
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 11: and the elder raised his hand to pronounce the benediction,
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 11: a wood thrush in the nearby forest began his vespers sweet,
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  Speaker 11: clear as a silver bell. The notes arose, tinkling, reverberating,
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  Speaker 11: tender but dignified, voicing in a half unconscious way. The
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  Speaker 11: solemn emotions of the hour. What is there in the
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  Speaker 11: singing of even the best of trained choirs to compare
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  Speaker 11: with this simple voice of nature, without affectation or conceit,
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  Speaker 11: arousing the feelings and appealing to the noblest instincts of
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  Speaker 11: our common nature. Birds crowd in upon us. Bull bat,
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  Speaker 11: chuckwill's widow, turtle, dove, gray cheek, thrush, and titlar come
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  Speaker 11: to see us, Some to stop and add their own
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  Speaker 11: individual element to the local coloring. Others, after a few
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  Speaker 11: hours of rest, to continue, they neither way northward. Multitudes
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  Speaker 11: of sparrows, jays, thrashers, nuthatches, tit mice, woodpeckers, et cetera,
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  Speaker 11: that have enjoyed our hospitality during the winter and part
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  Speaker 11: of the spring, pack up their effects and leave for
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  Speaker 11: summer is almost here. The bird that to my mind
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  Speaker 11: is distinctly the advance agent of summer has well been
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  Speaker 11: called the summer tanager. He delays his coming until straw
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  Speaker 11: hats and linen suits appear. Then what a dash of
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  Speaker 11: warm color he brings. Seated on the topmost bough of
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  Speaker 11: a tall oak, where the sun's rays fall full upon him,
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  Speaker 11: he gives such intense, palpitating color that one's eyes are
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  Speaker 11: almost blinded looking at him. Rich as is the red
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  Speaker 11: of the cardinal, it appears soiled and tarnished. Beside the
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  Speaker 11: summer tanager. With a sigh, we realize that the spring
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  Speaker 11: migration is over for this year. But there is one consolation.
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  Speaker 11: Only a part of its music is hushed. The soul
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  Speaker 11: of southern bird life. The mocking bird is left inconspicuous
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  Speaker 11: by reason of his Quaker gray suit. He makes up
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  Speaker 11: in attractive manners and variety of musical gifts what he
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  Speaker 11: lacks in other respects. It is quite impossible to do
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  Speaker 11: justice to this bird, either in describing his bubbling, effervescent
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  Speaker 11: life during the nesting season, or in giving an adequate
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  Speaker 11: idea of the effect produced upon the senses by his
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  Speaker 11: exquisitely beautiful nocturnes. One March night, some noise just outside
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  Speaker 11: my window awakened me. I arose, and raising the window, listened.
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  Speaker 11: The full moon, almost in the zenith, was flooding the
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  Speaker 11: landscape with a weird, soft light. The shadows of the
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  Speaker 11: cedar hedge a few yards away lay black as ink.
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  Speaker 11: The very air was vy with the perfume of the jessamine,
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  Speaker 11: a bloom in a neighboring forest in the cedars, a
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  Speaker 11: mockingbird sang to himself a sweet, dreamy song, giving more
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  Speaker 11: complete expression to the mystery, the romance, the passion, the
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  Speaker 11: rapturous content of a southern moonlit night than any poem
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  Speaker 11: that poet's hand has ever written. James Stephen Compton, end
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  Speaker 11: of section twenty three, recording by Andrea Kay.
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  Speaker 4: Section twenty four of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 4: April nineteen oh two, Read for Librevox dot Org by
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  Speaker 4: Betty b Antics of a hummingbird. As the writer was
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  Speaker 4: standing one May morning, you're a clump of bushes in
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  Speaker 4: the suburbs of a city in Maine, he witnessed, for
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  Speaker 4: the first time in a law experience of bird study,
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  Speaker 4: the courting antics of a male hummingbird. Two of the
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  Speaker 4: tiny creatures appeared, apparently evolved from mid air, and one
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  Speaker 4: alighted in the bush. She was the female. The male
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  Speaker 4: immediately began to disport himself in the air in the
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  Speaker 4: following remarkable manner. He dashed back and forth over the
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  Speaker 4: head of the female in long curving swoops, such as
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  Speaker 4: one describes in a swing, all the time giving utterance
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  Speaker 4: to a low, pleasing twitter. He thus swept back and
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 4: forth ten times, rising at the ends of the curve
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  Speaker 4: to a height of perhaps fifteen feet, sustaining himself there
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  Speaker 4: a moment with his ruby throat flashing in the sun,
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  Speaker 4: and then darting down the double toboggan slide and up
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  Speaker 4: to the other end. Though he flew very swiftly, yet
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 4: his speed was not the usual flash, and his movements
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 4: could be plainly seen. I have never before seen a
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 4: humming bird fly so slowly, nor heard from one of
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  Speaker 4: them such a prolonged vocal sound. Indeed, it is very
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  Speaker 4: rare that one hears the hummingbird's voice, even if one
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  Speaker 4: is on the alert for it. After the tenth swoop,
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  Speaker 4: there was a buzz of wings, and both birds had vanished.
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  Speaker 4: A minute after, I found the mail in a cherry tree,
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  Speaker 4: sipping honey from the blossoms. There is evidently a rivalry
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  Speaker 4: between the bees and the humming birds in their quest
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  Speaker 4: for honey. This bird, with an angry dash, expressed its
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  Speaker 4: disapproval of the presence of a big bumble bee in
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 4: the same tree. The usually pugnacious bee incontinently fled, but
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 4: he did not leave the tree. He dashed back and
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 4: forth among the branches and white blossoms. The humming bird
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  Speaker 4: inclosed pursuit. Where will you find another pair that could
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  Speaker 4: dodge and turn and dart equal to these? They were
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 4: like flashes of light. Yet the pursuer followed in the
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  Speaker 4: track of the pursuit, turning when the bee turned. There
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  Speaker 4: was no cutting across, for there was no time for that.
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  Speaker 4: In short, the bird and the bee controlled the movement
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 4: of their bodies more quickly and more accurately than the
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 4: writer could control the movement of his eyes. The chase
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 4: was all over in half the time it is taken
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  Speaker 4: to tell it, But the excitement of a pack of
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 4: hounds after a fox is as nothing in comparison. The
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  Speaker 4: bee escaped, the bird, giving up the chase and alighting
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  Speaker 4: on a twig. It couldn't have been chasing the bee
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  Speaker 4: for food, and there is no possible explanation of his
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 4: unprovoked attack except that it wished to have all the
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 4: honey itself. So even as little a body as a
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 4: humming bird can show selfishness in a marked degree. However,
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 4: mister b continued to take his share of nature's bounty,
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  Speaker 4: though doubtless he had his weather eye open against another attack.
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  Speaker 4: Both scenes afforded me a delightful study and were a
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  Speaker 4: rare privilege. George Bancroft Griffith, end of section twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: Section twenty five of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number four,
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  Speaker 12: April nineteen o two, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 12: Kittibagbie Calamus Acreus calamus l another goblet, quick and stir,
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  Speaker 12: pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh and calamus therein longfellow,
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  Speaker 12: golden legend three. Acreus calamus, commonly known as Calamus.
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  Speaker 13: Sweet flag and cinnamon sedge, is a reed like plant
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  Speaker 13: common in Europe and northern United States.
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  Speaker 12: It grows in swamps, marshes, and very moist places. It
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  Speaker 12: is herbaceous perennial, growing from spreading fleshy rhizomes. The long swordlike,
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  Speaker 12: deep green pointed leaves grow up from the isomes. The
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  Speaker 12: history of this.
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  Speaker 13: Plant dates back to remote antiquity, yet there is considerable
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  Speaker 13: uncertainty as regards the identity of the various plants which
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  Speaker 13: have at various periods been supposed to be sweet flag.
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  Speaker 13: There is no doubt that some read like plant In
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  Speaker 13: many respects similar, if not identical, with calamus, was used
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  Speaker 13: by the ancient Egyptians in the preparation of incense, as
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  Speaker 13: recorded in the Papyri of Ebers. These Egyptian records date
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  Speaker 13: back to the eighteenth dynasty, or from eighteen hundred to
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  Speaker 13: two thousand years BC. Vague references to a similar plant
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  Speaker 13: are to be found in the ancient sacred writings of
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  Speaker 13: the Hindus. It is likely that the plant referred to
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  Speaker 13: and that which is mentioned in the Bible is a
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  Speaker 13: species of Andropogon and not Acarus. In Exodus, chapter thirty,
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  Speaker 13: verse twenty three, we find take thou also unto the
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 13: principal spices of pure mr, of sweet cinnamon, and of
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  Speaker 13: sweet calamists. Our first reliable information of calamus is from Plinius,
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  Speaker 13: who received specimens from the country about the Black Sea,
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  Speaker 13: and who described it under the name of Acarus Calamus.
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  Speaker 13: Acorus derived from the Greek A four and chorus the i,
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  Speaker 13: because the plant was highly recommended in the treatment of
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  Speaker 13: diseases of the eye. Calamus, also derived from the Greek,
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 13: means a reed or reed like plant. Dioscorides and Theophrastus
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  Speaker 13: also describe the plant with special reference to the rhizome
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  Speaker 13: and its uses. The rhizome should be collected late in
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 13: the autumn, carefully cleaned of dirt, leaf remnants, leaf scales,
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  Speaker 13: and roots, and dried in the sun or in an
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  Speaker 13: oven at a moderate temperature. The aromatic odor increases greatly
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  Speaker 13: on drying. Calamus has ever been a favorite popular remedy.
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  Speaker 13: Its principal use seems to have been that of a
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 13: tonic and blood purifier, for which purpose bits of the
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 13: dried rhizomes are masticated and the saliva swallowed. It undoubtedly
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 13: is a tonic, and it also has a beneficial stimulating
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 13: and antiseptic effect upon gums and teeth. Chewing the rhizomes
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 13: is also said to clear the voice. Calamus is or has.
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  Speaker 12: Been used in flavoring gin and beer. Country people added
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  Speaker 12: to whisky, wine and brandy to make atonic bitters for
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  Speaker 12: the weak and dyspeptic. It is said that the Turks
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  Speaker 12: employ it as a preventative against contagious diseases. In India,
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 12: it is used to destroy vermin, especially fleas. In England
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  Speaker 12: it is employed in the treatment of malaria. At the
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 12: present time, calamus is no longer extensively employed in medicine
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  Speaker 12: it is considered as a stimulating, aromatic and bitter tonic.
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  Speaker 12: It is perhaps true that its value as atonic is
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 12: at present somewhat underestimated by the medical profession. It is
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 12: also serviceable in flatulent colic and in what is designated
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 12: as atonic dyspepsia. It is added to other medicines either
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 12: as a corrective or edgevant Albert Schneider end of section
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  Speaker 12: twenty five. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty six of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, number
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  Speaker 1: four April nineteen hundred and two, recorded for Librivaux dot
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  Speaker 1: Org by Taverish. The birds. They are swaying in the marshes.
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: They are swinging in the glen where the cattails air
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: their brushes, in the zephys of the fen, in the
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: swamp's deserted tangle, where the reed grass wets its scythes,
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: in the dismal, creepy quagmire, where the snake gourd twists
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: and writhes. They are singing in arroyos where the cactus
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: males its breast, where the span Fanish Baynard glistens, in
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  Speaker 1: the steep bank's rocky crest, in the canyon where the
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: cascade sets its pearls in maiden hair, where the hay
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: and holly beckon valley sun and mountain air. They are
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: nesting in the elbow of the scrub oak's knotty arm,
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: in the gray mesh of the sagebrush, in the wheat
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  Speaker 1: fields of the farm, in the banks along the sea beach,
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: in the vine above my door, in the outstretched clumsy
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: fingers of the mottled sycamore. While the church bell rings
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: its discourse. They are sitting on the spires song and anthem,
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: psalm and carol quaver as from mystic lyres. Everywhere they
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 1: flirt and flutter, mate and nest in shrub and tree,
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: charmed I wonder yon and hither while their beauties ravish
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 1: me till my musings sing like thrushes, and my heart
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: is like a nest, softly lined with tender fancies plucked
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: from Nature's mother breast. Elizabeth Grinnell in Birds of Song
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  Speaker 1: and Story, end of section twenty six. This recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. End of Birds and Nature, Volume eleven, No. Four,
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  Speaker 1: April nineteen hundred and two.