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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 1, June 1899-Various · For the Birds

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 1: June eighteen ninety nine. This is a Libriwalks recording. All
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  Speaker 1: liberwox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit Liberywalks dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: Subar Chander www dot Subar Singhs dot com. My neighbor
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  Speaker 1: in the apple tree Nellihart Wordworth. Tropical portions of the
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  Speaker 1: American continent rich in an endless variety and beauty of
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  Speaker 1: bird life, have shared with New England, but a single
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  Speaker 1: species of trochilite trotchless collabris, the ruby throated hummingbird. This
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  Speaker 1: glittering fragment of rainbow adds a decorative feature to our gardens,
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  Speaker 1: its nests so protected through diminutive size and perfect adaptation
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  Speaker 1: to the surroundings that it rarely comes under one's observation.
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  Speaker 1: It is commonly asserted that the male is an arrant shirk,
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  Speaker 1: that he leaves the entire labor of building and furnishing
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  Speaker 1: the house, as well as the heavy duties of housekeeping
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  Speaker 1: to the faithful mother, being in the fullest sense, a
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  Speaker 1: silent partner, either from choice or otherwise a mere apology
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  Speaker 1: for a husband and a head of a family. Nor
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  Speaker 1: does he redeem himself when the prospective twins arrive and
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  Speaker 1: slender bills are lifted appealingly for foot. No thanks to
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  Speaker 1: him that the naked, squirming little atoms replacing the two
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  Speaker 1: white eggs become gradually stronger, that some hint of plumage
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  Speaker 1: duly covers their nudeness, or that by and by they
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  Speaker 1: become birds. In reality, two years ago, this little lady
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  Speaker 1: in green made a nest upon an apple tree branch,
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  Speaker 1: concealing it so deftly that the gardener at work near
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  Speaker 1: by was unaware of the distinguished guests until the brooding
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  Speaker 1: was nearly over. When the little birds had flown the
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  Speaker 1: lichen's residence, becoming a family position was considered the daintiest
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  Speaker 1: sauvenir of the summer. Being anxious to know if this rare,
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  Speaker 1: interesting episode would be repeated the following summer, I watched
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  Speaker 1: carefully for its repetition. Promptly in June I found that
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  Speaker 1: a hummingbird was again at home, this time upon a
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  Speaker 1: horizontal maple branch twelve feet from the ground and directly
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  Speaker 1: over the sidewalk. This nest was soldered upon a long
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  Speaker 1: slender bow half an inch in thickness at the intersection
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  Speaker 1: of another, a mere twig a quarter of an inch
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  Speaker 1: through the latter in trought with and concealed for a
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  Speaker 1: full inch in the structural fiber. Upon the twenty second
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  Speaker 1: of the same month, by the aid of a ladder,
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  Speaker 1: I found that two eggs the size of yellow beans
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  Speaker 1: were lying inside the downy cup shaped nest.
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  Speaker 2: Before this luckless visitation.
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  Speaker 1: The tail of the brooding bird could be seen from
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  Speaker 1: the ground, but during the next two days there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of life Thereabout in the afternoon of the
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  Speaker 1: third day, my bird was in the maple, darting hither
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  Speaker 1: and thither like a swallow, plunging into the insects swarms
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  Speaker 1: and securing several before they realized her presence. Then she
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  Speaker 1: came to the honeycircle beside me, hovering over it in
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  Speaker 1: a bewildered, irresolute manner, as if debating whether she could
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  Speaker 1: safely probe its scarlet cups. Just at this moment, a
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  Speaker 1: big miller flew by, and off she went in close chase,
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  Speaker 1: capturing it upon the wing. Then she rested upon a
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  Speaker 1: mapple twig leisurely preened her feathers, drawing each one gently
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  Speaker 1: through a beak, and after a second visit to the honeysuckles,
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  Speaker 1: darted toward the nest. Now, I thought, is the time,
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  Speaker 1: if ever, to decide if she is still housekeeping, and
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  Speaker 1: following quickly I saw her standing upon the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the silken cradle. Her head moved rapidly from side to
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  Speaker 1: side as she regarded its contents, after which she rose
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  Speaker 1: slightly in the air, dropped upon the nest with the
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  Speaker 1: airy graze of a thistle down, and spread about it
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  Speaker 1: the feathered blanket of a soft, warm breast. For several minutes,
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  Speaker 1: she ignored my presence, drawing a beak across the leaves,
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  Speaker 1: or springing into the air for a passing insect, which
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  Speaker 1: was captured and apparently given to a family. Once I
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  Speaker 1: detected a squeak, and her head was instantly thrown to one.
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  Speaker 2: Side in a listening attitude.
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  Speaker 1: If it was the note of the mate, he did
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  Speaker 1: not approach the nest, the thick leaves hiding the tree
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  Speaker 1: top from which the sound proceeded. There was a furious
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  Speaker 1: wind that night, and the warm days were followed by
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  Speaker 1: a sudden fall in temperature. From that time, the nest
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  Speaker 1: was deserted. I could only conjecture that I had presumed
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  Speaker 1: too much upon her defenselessness, or that the young, if
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  Speaker 1: young there were, were dislodged by the wing. This abundant
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  Speaker 1: homestead was as round and perfect as a new coin
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  Speaker 1: just issued from nature's mint, a marvel of elegance in
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  Speaker 1: which all the instinctive gifts of decorative art united. There
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  Speaker 1: were no visible signs of rebuilding during the twelve days
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  Speaker 1: that followed. Casual trips to the honey circle, hovering over
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  Speaker 1: the flowers like some gorgeous insects with colors scintillating in
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  Speaker 1: the full sunshine alone gave evidence of further interest or intention.
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  Speaker 2: Upon the thirteenth day, there was a mark change. Again.
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  Speaker 2: She flew excitedly.
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  Speaker 1: About the lawn, stopping abruptly to wheel about and dart
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  Speaker 1: off in an opposite direction, a vitalized complement of the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the trees, mingling with and pervading the garden
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  Speaker 1: as freely as did the light and air. She threw
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  Speaker 1: herself against the summer warbler, almost knocking him off his perch, and,
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  Speaker 1: not content with this treatment, drew him from the lawn,
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  Speaker 1: which by the way, was his own horrors field, where
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  Speaker 1: he had gleamed diligently for several days. Then the bird
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  Speaker 1: poised before me in midair, circled about my head before
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  Speaker 1: plunging into an apple tree, in whose leafy maces she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Just at that moment, an accommodating breeze displaced the leaves.
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  Speaker 1: There was a flutter within a flash of wings and
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  Speaker 1: unusual agitation that told of something quite beyond the ordinarty.
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  Speaker 1: As the breeze died away, the leaves resumed their place,
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  Speaker 1: thus preventing all further inspection from the parlor windows. Fortunately
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  Speaker 1: there was less obstruction. She was still twisting about going
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  Speaker 1: and returning, dropping within the foliage and going through the
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  Speaker 1: most singular antics. An opera glass revealed the meaning. She
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  Speaker 1: dropped into a half finished nest that had all this
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  Speaker 1: time been directly in range of fission. The tiny tenement
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  Speaker 1: was so deftly concealed, blending in color an apparent texture,
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  Speaker 1: with a bow that held it, and so sheltered by
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  Speaker 1: overhanging leaves that it was still difficult to locate a
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  Speaker 1: second time. With unbounded delight, I watched her come and
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  Speaker 1: go a dozen times in less than that number of minutes,
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  Speaker 1: bringing at each arrival a quantity of vegetable fibers, soft
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  Speaker 1: as a silken cobweb. Adjusted invariably, while standing inside the
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  Speaker 1: nest and turning completely around several times, as if shaping
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  Speaker 1: the interior to her better satisfaction, she reached far over
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  Speaker 1: and pulled the fluffy cotton into place, beating it here
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  Speaker 1: and jerking it there, sinking her little breast into and
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  Speaker 1: shaping it to fit the soft contours of her body,
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  Speaker 1: or covering the outside with trailing wings, beat them rapidly
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  Speaker 1: against the felted foundation, which at these times was entirely
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  Speaker 1: hidden beneath their iridescence. Though still unfinished, the delicate structure
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  Speaker 1: was lichen decorated, simply perfect so far as it went,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, defying the assertion that hummingbirds' nests are
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  Speaker 1: always completed before this ornate decoration is added. In the
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  Speaker 1: succeeding weeks, weeks in which I entertained an angel not unawares,
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  Speaker 1: her two ways of approach were unvaried, either passing the
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  Speaker 1: nest entirely to rise from beneath, or hovering over and over,
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  Speaker 1: dropped down as lightly as a snowflake or the petal
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  Speaker 1: of an apple blossom, and such a pretty proprietary air,
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  Speaker 1: the complacence and importance for which great possessions are often answerable,
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  Speaker 1: as if the trees were there for her alone, the
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  Speaker 1: garden made simply for her convenience. After working rapidly for
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  Speaker 1: two full hours, she paused to rest upon a dead twig,
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  Speaker 1: opening and closing her wings in the twinkling fashion of
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  Speaker 1: a bluebird, and exercise prefacing a breakfast taken in the
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  Speaker 1: nearest tree. As she poised beneath the leaves with appetite appeace,
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  Speaker 1: she dropped upon the unfinished cradle and sat so still
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  Speaker 1: for twenty minutes that I was certain an egg was deposited. Doubtless,
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  Speaker 1: the misfortunes attending previous nesting had interrupted the even tenor
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  Speaker 1: of life. The second housekeeping was more urgent than was anticipated.
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  Speaker 1: For ten minutes more, her form was motionless, though her
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  Speaker 1: head moved from side to side in a ceaseless surveillance.
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  Speaker 1: A warbler lunching in the next tree glanced casually in
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  Speaker 1: her direction and was able to just wild with curiosity.
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  Speaker 2: The situation was too much for him.
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  Speaker 1: He left his post hurriedly, flew over her, and looked down,
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  Speaker 1: flew under, and looked up peered at her from an
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  Speaker 1: airy poise, still undecided as to who was rocking in
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  Speaker 1: that wonderful tradle. Craning his neck, he hopped along the
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  Speaker 1: branch till he stood beside her, so near that his
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  Speaker 1: yellow coat literally brushed her garments, his attitude a quick
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  Speaker 1: pantomime of his thoughts half paralyzed with questioning surprise as
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  Speaker 1: to what this remnant of a bird might be, not
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  Speaker 1: by any means to be bought cheap because it was remnant.
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  Speaker 1: A quick thrust from the hummer's beak brought him to
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  Speaker 1: his senses. He took leave for a few seconds, returning
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  Speaker 1: cross lots to stare again from the same near point
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  Speaker 1: of view, which unwarranted impertinence was borne without flinching or
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  Speaker 1: changing her position. Later on, these tours of inspection were
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly rescented. The right of territory contested in many a battle,
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  Speaker 1: when the defendant advanced and retreated with the rapidity of lightning,
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  Speaker 1: making furious thrusts at her adversary and chasing him about
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  Speaker 1: till sheer exhaustion compelled her to desist. Then she would
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  Speaker 1: drop upon the nest, still regarding him with undistinguished contempt,
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  Speaker 1: till he took her to the tree top, keeping an
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  Speaker 1: eye upon her as he dropped a song or swallowed
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  Speaker 1: an insect. A young woodpecker came one day to our
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  Speaker 1: door to Quarrelsome robins stopped to say good morning, and
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  Speaker 1: goldfinches lisped their soft loud notes, while she only hugged
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  Speaker 1: her rags more closely with the dear.
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  Speaker 2: Delicious shyness of affection.
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  Speaker 1: When my little housebuilder left that morning, I was sure
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  Speaker 1: that the edge of a white egg rose above the
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  Speaker 1: low rim of the nest. From the attic window, it
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  Speaker 1: was plainly visible the treadled egg rocking in the wind.
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  Speaker 1: But though the warbler was close by, to his credit
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  Speaker 1: be it said, he did not once trespass upon other
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  Speaker 1: people's property. Twice that afternoon, my lady buzzed through the
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  Speaker 1: trees without halting to look in at home. Nor when
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  Speaker 1: night came down did the wander return. She was busy
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  Speaker 1: about the next morning, all work being done in the
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  Speaker 1: early hours, and by eight o'clock her second neck lay
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  Speaker 1: beside the first. By nine o'clock the following morning, the
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  Speaker 1: regular brooding began, the finishing touches being given to the
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  Speaker 1: nest long before the breakfast hour. It was a noisy location,
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  Speaker 1: what with the clatter of lawnmowers, the drumming of pianos,
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  Speaker 1: and the singing of canaries, to which she listened with
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  Speaker 1: neighborly interest.
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  Speaker 2: In that chosen place.
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  Speaker 1: Directly over the path leading from the sidewalk to the door,
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  Speaker 1: it was impossible to find even a degree of seclusion.
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  Speaker 1: The weather was fine, the pis are rarely vacant, and
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  Speaker 1: there were few hours in the day, but someone passed
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  Speaker 1: the nest. Nor did the trouble end with daylight. Bicycle
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  Speaker 1: parties made the yard a starting point for evening excursions.
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  Speaker 1: Lanterns flashed while partying guests halted beneath the little house
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  Speaker 1: beautiful until I trembled for poor Queenie, thus barred away
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  Speaker 1: from her own door.
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  Speaker 2: Though she unvaryingly.
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  Speaker 1: Left the nest, the persons passing were never once conscious
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  Speaker 1: of the nearness of bird or nest, Swinging breezes often
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  Speaker 1: bringing the latter so near that it almost touched their faces.
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  Speaker 1: I could see it highly from my window, the overhanging leaf,
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  Speaker 1: the operized lusure of the brooding bird, as if a
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  Speaker 1: store of sunshine was shivered and falling over her feathers,
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  Speaker 1: then momentarily hidden as the swinging leaf intervened. More solid
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  Speaker 1: pursuits were forgotten or for the time regarded as of
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  Speaker 1: little importance. Each delicate outline became familiar. The brooding leaf
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  Speaker 1: assumed a personality. It was a guardian of the home,
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  Speaker 1: vital eized, spiritualized, protective. It seemed to change position as
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  Speaker 1: the sun made the need apparent, shielding the little one
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  Speaker 1: in the long waiting days, so patient and passive in
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  Speaker 1: the sweet expectancy of nearing motherhood. My memory pictures her still,
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  Speaker 1: while a more tangible photograph upon my desk gives permanence
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  Speaker 1: to my bird of the musical wing as she broodered
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  Speaker 1: over the apple tree nest. With this home as a focus,
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  Speaker 1: lawn and garden seemed to hold the sunshine in suspension.
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  Speaker 1: Uplifted grasses gave it recognition in smiling approval. Shadows were
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  Speaker 1: invested with humane and beneficent attributes, and the very air
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  Speaker 1: was radiant with scent and gracious influence.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the bird came.
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  Speaker 1: To my window, her beak clicking against the glass in
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  Speaker 1: a vain effort to probe the flowers within. There were
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  Speaker 1: visits to to the piazza when the family were gathered there,
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  Speaker 1: poising above the embroidered flowers upon a lady's slipper, and
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  Speaker 1: trying persistently to taste.
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  Speaker 2: Their illusive sweetness.
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  Speaker 1: Thrice, upon the fourth day of sitting, she improved the
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  Speaker 1: nest with an extra beakfull of cotton, holding it firmly
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  Speaker 1: five or ten minutes before it was in wrought. This
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  Speaker 1: was repeated after two weeks. When there was a decided change.
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  Speaker 1: The little warm breast was pressed less closely against the
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  Speaker 1: nest treasures. Some amazing instinct, directly opposed to that dear
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  Speaker 1: experience by which we find a short patch to a
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  Speaker 1: long wandering taught her that her increased fragility would yield
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  Speaker 1: to her full weight, and her.
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  Speaker 2: Touch was of exquisite softness.
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  Speaker 1: When three full weeks had passed, a homely baby, no
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  Speaker 1: bigger than a honeybee lay in the nest. A one
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  Speaker 1: day's advantage kept to the end, and noticeable in both
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  Speaker 1: size and strength. The next morning, this might was duplicated.
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  Speaker 1: Their whole body is trembling with every heartbeat. Life became
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  Speaker 1: now a problem of supply and demand, only a clearer
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  Speaker 1: expression of the one that has from all time agitated
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  Speaker 1: humanity then began the marvel of marvels, the feeding of
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  Speaker 1: the newly hatched birds. It was hardly worthwhile to question
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the process, though I confess that after
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  Speaker 1: each feeding I expected only two little, mangled corpses would remain.
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  Speaker 1: The foot, partially digested in the mother's stomach, was given
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  Speaker 1: by regurgitation, her beak being thrust so far down their
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  Speaker 1: throat that I surmised it would pierce the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the nest, to say nothing of the frail bodies churned.
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  Speaker 2: Violently up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the great wonder was that the infants survived this
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  Speaker 1: seemingly brutal and dangerous exciss in which they were sometimes
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  Speaker 1: lifted above the nest, the food being given alternately at
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  Speaker 1: intervals of half an hour to an hour. They thrived, however,
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  Speaker 1: under a treatment that gave strength to the muscles, besides
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  Speaker 1: aiding in the digestion of food. From the first the
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  Speaker 1: comparative length of beak was their most noticeable feature, the
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  Speaker 1: proportion becoming less marked by the fourth day, when fine,
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  Speaker 1: hairy pin feathers appeared, these increasing in size and reinforced
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  Speaker 1: by a decided plumage seen above the rim of the nest.
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  Speaker 1: Before the second week ended. By the ninth day they
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  Speaker 1: attempted their first toilet, drawing the incipient feathers mere hairs
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  Speaker 1: through the beak, And on the tenth day, more surprising still,
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  Speaker 1: they had found their voices. Several times daily, the branch
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  Speaker 1: was pulled down to the level of my eyes, the
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  Speaker 1: twins regarding me with the surprise and innocence of babyhood,
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  Speaker 1: sinking low into the nest meanwhile, and emitting a plaintive cry,
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  Speaker 1: almost human in its pathos and expression.
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  Speaker 2: So far as I know.
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  Speaker 1: No observer has recorded this pleading, pathetic note from the
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  Speaker 1: infant hummers, so noticeable whenever I came too near, the
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  Speaker 1: branch replaced and the disturbing element removed. They reappeared above
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  Speaker 1: the nest's rim, the slight form of the mother palpitent
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  Speaker 1: as she hovered near. Early in their lives, when a
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  Speaker 1: cold rain followed the long trout her enforced absence, were brief,
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  Speaker 1: hasty trips, merely to the flower garden in the rear
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  Speaker 1: of the house, or to the flowering beans in the
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  Speaker 1: next yard. A favorite lunch counter patronized every hour. Ordinarily
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  Speaker 1: the leaf that served to so good purpose. In the
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  Speaker 1: sunny days became heavy with rain drops tilted to one side,
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  Speaker 1: and little streams trickled down upon her back and ran
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  Speaker 1: off her tail, while big drops splashed down from the
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  Speaker 1: higher branches threatened to annilate the whole affair. Undaunted still,
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  Speaker 1: my Liliputiane mother hugged her precious charges with drooping tail
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  Speaker 1: hanging over the edge of the nest, head drawn into
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  Speaker 1: her brother's, her whole appearance as limp and bedraggled as
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  Speaker 1: a hen caught out in a shower. When the infants
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  Speaker 1: had seen two weeks of life, they refused to be
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  Speaker 1: longer brooded. From this time on they matured rapidly, feeling
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  Speaker 1: the nest so full that my lady found no place
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  Speaker 1: for the soul of a foot, and often alighted upon
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  Speaker 1: their backs to give them foot. In four days more,
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  Speaker 1: their baby dresses were quite outgrown. These were replaced by green,
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  Speaker 1: graduating gowns of stylish texture and fit. And as my
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  Speaker 1: bird book stated that young hummers left the nest when
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  Speaker 1: a week old, I was watching eagerly for their debut.
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  Speaker 1: Long before this, the nest proper began to show signs
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  Speaker 1: of heart service before its occupants left, it became a
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  Speaker 1: thing of the past, positively dissolving to a mere shelf
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  Speaker 1: or platform, and one side falling out entirely, the impertable
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  Speaker 1: twins sitting or standing upon what remained, content in the
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  Speaker 1: silence that all completed tasks deserve.
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  Speaker 2: As I have said before.
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  Speaker 1: One of these little grown ups surpassed the other in
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  Speaker 1: size and vigor, insisting gently or forcibly upon the best
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  Speaker 1: standing place, and vibrating its wings for several seconds at
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  Speaker 1: a time. Plainly this one would be the first to
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  Speaker 1: launch upon the world. Twenty two days of hatching, it
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  Speaker 1: spread its wing without apparent effort and alighted upon a
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  Speaker 1: neighboring twig. Clearly, life was regarded from a mature standard,
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  Speaker 1: as it preened its plumage and looked about with an
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  Speaker 1: undaunted air. Two days later, the smaller twin followed the example,
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  Speaker 1: reaching the upper branches as easily as if flight were
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  Speaker 1: an everyday occurrence. Both birds flitting about the familiar tree
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  Speaker 1: and fed by the parent. Until after the third day
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  Speaker 1: they were seen no more. End of section one. This
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Recording by Sobarchander www
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  Speaker 1: dot subar singhs dot com Section two of Birds and
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  Speaker 1: All Nature, volume six, number one, June eighteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: Recorded for Libertywalks dot Org by Subar Chanda. There is
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  Speaker 1: something noble, simple and pure in a taste for trees,
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  Speaker 1: It argues, I think a sweet and generous nature to
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  Speaker 1: have this strong relish for beauties of vegetation, and this
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  Speaker 1: friendship for the hardy and glorious suns of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: There is grandeur of thought connected with this part of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: rural economy. It is worthy of liberal and freeborn and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: aspiring men. He who plans and oak looks forward to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: future ages and plans for posterity. Nothing can be less
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  Speaker 1: selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: nor enjoy its shelter. But he excels in the idea
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that the acorn which he has buried in the earth
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  Speaker 1: shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep
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  Speaker 1: on flourishing and increasing and benefiting mankind long after he
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields. By Washington Irving,
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  Speaker 1: end of section two, recording by Subar Chanda www dot
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Subar Singhs dot com. Section three of Birds and All Nature,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Volume six, number one, June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: libritwalks dot Org by subar Chanda. A day in June
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: bright is this day of smiling June, when Nature's voice
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is all a tune in music's swelling flow to sing
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: sweet songs of praise to Nature's king. From ashure hides,
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  Speaker 1: the lark's loud song is borne the balmy breeze along.
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  Speaker 1: The robin tunes his sweetest strain and blithly sings his
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: glad refrain of summer days and summer joys. The tawny
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: thrusts his voice employs in chorus with the wabbling throng
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to fill his measure of the song. The river to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: with rippling flow as it winds through its banks below
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  Speaker 1: and leaps and plays in merry glee. O'er rocky bed
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: beneath grassy lee or silent glides through Silvan's shade to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: laugh again in sunny glade sends back its murmuring voice
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to swell the music of each lovely dell where Flora
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: decks with brilliant sheen. The Virgin's sword of velvet green
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  Speaker 1: from a Forthcoming vo by Geo H. Cook, Chicago, end
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  Speaker 1: of section three recording by subar Chanda www dot subar
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  Speaker 1: sings dot com. Section four of Birds and All Nature,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Volume six, number one, June eighteen ninety nine, Recorded for
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: librewalks dot org by subar Chanda. Western yellow throat Giathlypis
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: trichas occidentalists, the birds are here for all the seasons.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Late they take the sun's height and doarn never wait
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: soon is he officially declares its spring. Their light hearts
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: lift them on nor third wing, and ain't an acre
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  Speaker 1: for as you can hear, can't buy the music tell
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  Speaker 1: the time. Oe Lowell, This common but beautiful resident of
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the western United States, begins to arrive about the middle
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of April and leaves during the month of September. It
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is one of the most confipiquous of the warbler family,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: is very numerous and familiar, and is decked with such
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a marked plumage that it cannot fail to be noticed.
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  Speaker 1: The adult male is olive green above, becoming browner on
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the nape. The female is duller in color than the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: male without black, gray or white on head, which is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: mostly dull brownish. The yellow of throat is much duller
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: than in the male. The young are somewhat like the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: adult female. This is said to be the prevailing form
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: in Illinois and Indiana, the larger number of specimens having
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the more extensively yellow lower parts of the Western form,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: though there is much variation. This little fellow is found
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: among the briers of wheat stalks, in rose bushes and brambles,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: where it sings throughout the day. Its nest, generally built
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: between upright wheat stalks or coast grass in damp meadowland,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is shaped like a cup, the opening at the top.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: The eggs vary from four to six and are of
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  Speaker 1: a delicate pinkish white, the larger end marked by a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: ring of specks and lines of different shades of brown.
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  Speaker 1: The western yellow throat inhabits the Mississippi Valley to the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Pacific Coast. It is found as far north as Manitoba
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: south in winter, from the southern United States through central
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and western Mexico to Guthemela, with a few exceptions. The
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: wobblers are migratory birds, the majority of them passing rapidly
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: across the United States in the spring on the way
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to the northern breeding grounds.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: It is for this reason that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: They are known to few except the close observers of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: bird life, though in season they are known to literally
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: swarm where their insect food is most plentiful, always where
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the green leaves are, whether in lofty treetop, by an
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: embowered coppice or budding orchard. When the apple trees bloom,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the warblers revel among the flowers, ying inactivity and numbers,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: with the bees now probing the recesses of a blossom
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  Speaker 1: for an insect which has affected lodgment, there then darting
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to another, where, poised daintly upon a slender twig or
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: suspended from it, he explodes hastily but carefully.
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  Speaker 2: For another mossel.
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  Speaker 1: Every movement is the personification of nervous activity, as if
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the time for the journey was shot, and indeed such
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: appears to be the case for two or three days
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: at most suffice some species in a single locality. A
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: day spent in gleaning through the woods and orchards of
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: one neighborhood, with occasional brief siestas among the leafy bowers,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: then the following night in continuous flight toward its northern destination,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: is probably the history of every individual of the moon.
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  Speaker 1: End of section four recording by subarchander Www. Dot subar
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  Speaker 1: singhs dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Section five of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 3: June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 3: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Charlie and
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the Angleworm alistair Burt Charlie was going fishing, and he
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: took great pride in the quantity of squirming bait he
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: carried in the tin box. He was quite a small boy,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: only eight years old, but country boys learned to take
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: care of them sooner than city children. When he reached
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: the little stream where he meant to fish, he found
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: some one before him. It was a stranger whom Charlie
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: had seen once or twice at a neighbor's where he
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: was boarding during the summer. The old mill was the
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: best place in miles for fish, and Charlie wished that
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: the city boarder had chosen some other spot in which
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: to read his book. He gave a shy, not very
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: cordial reply to the stranger's pleasant good morning, and began
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: to arrange his line. In a few minutes, one of
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the largest earthworms was wriggling in the water at the
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: end of Charlie's hook, and he himself was sprawled out
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: upon the ground at the end of a long beam
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: projecting from the mill, intently regarding the water. No luck,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: my boy, asked the stranger, watching Charlie work with the
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: struggling worm. That was as hard to get off the
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: hook as it had been to put on. No, sir,
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  Speaker 3: replied the little boy. The fishes don't seem to bite,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: not hungry to day, eh, said the stranger. I should
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: think that would be a good thing for the worms.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Charlie opened his eyes. It had never occurred to him
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: to consider the worms in the matter. They were to
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: him nothing but ugly, stupid things, which his father said
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: injured the roots of plants. Don't you think the worms
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: are as fond of their life as you are of yours,
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: went on Charlie's new friend, In their little underground earth houses,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: They are very comfortable and happy. Charlie smiled. This was
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: a new view of the case to him, and he
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: edged nearer to the stranger to hear what more he
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: would say. They is only worms, said Charlie, And the
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: worm is a very good sort of creature in its way.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: They are harmless cleanly animals. See, I can take that
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: one of yours in the palm of my hand, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: it will not harm me in the least. Let me
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: put it down on the ground and see how it
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: hurries to get away. It is frightened now it is
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: trying to force away into that damp earth. I wonder
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: if you know just how the worm makes its way
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: through the ground. Charlie shook his head, and the stranger said,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: you have often noticed the shape of the worm. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: dare say one end of its body is much thicker
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: than the other, which runs to a point. The thicker
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: end of the body is the head. The body itself,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: you will see, is made of many small rings held
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: together by tiny muscles and skin, making it possible for
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the worm to bend and curl and wriggle in a
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: way that is impossible for you and me, whose bones
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: are fewer and fitted tightly together, so that they move
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: about less easily. Now, if you will take this one
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  Speaker 3: in your hand, said the stranger, and run your fingers
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: very gently down its sides, from tail to head, you
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  Speaker 3: will find that the body of the worm is covered
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: with fine hooks. If you run your fingers along the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: worm in the other direction, you will think the body
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: perfectly smooth. This is because all the hooks point in
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: the other direction. When the worm wishes to enter the earth,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: it pushes its blunt head through the soil, lengthening its
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: body by means of the muscles that hold together the
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: soft cartilage like rings. At first, only a few rings
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: go into the ground. Master worm then draws up his
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: body into a thick roll by shortening his muscles. In
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: this way, he forces apart the soft earth to make
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: room for his body, the points on the sides holding
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  Speaker 3: it there, while he again lengthens his head, pushing more
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: earth apart. It is in this way, by alternately or
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: in turn lengthening or shortening his body, that he makes
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  Speaker 3: his way through the earth, which is pushed aside to
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: give him passage through its dark depths. As his home
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: is underground, eyes would not be of much use to him.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: So Mother Nature, whose children we all are, has given
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  Speaker 3: him none. One of her laws is that none of
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  Speaker 3: us shall have what we cannot or do not make
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  Speaker 3: use of. He has a strong mouth, however it is
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: placed on the second ring of the body. His food
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: is earth, which he swallows to obtain the organic particles
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: contained in it. This makes him especially interesting. For nearly
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: all animals obtain their food from the soil, quite indirectly.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Some get it from plants, the plants themselves having gathered
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  Speaker 3: theirs from the earth through their roots. Certain animals depend
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: on other creatures, which in turn get food from the plants.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: The life giving particles which go to build up all
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: bodies come directly or indirectly from the earth itself. It
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: seems odd that a man who is starving, no matter
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: where he may be, starves with the very food which
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: he needs directly beneath his feet. Only he does not know,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: nor has the wisest man yet learned, how to convert
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: it into food which will directly sustain and give health
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: to the body. Yet the little earth worm, which you
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: despise as stupid, has this wonderful secret, which day by
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: day it puts into operation for its own benefit. Worms
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: also eat leaves, which sometimes they drag into their homes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: The worm has no feet, as we understand them, but
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: moves along the ground by ticking its sharp claws into
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  Speaker 3: the ground, and by in turn lengthening and shortening its
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: flexible body. The young worms grow from eggs which are
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: deposited in the earth. In the autumn, they have to
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: look out for themselves. During the winter, they burrow deep
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: into the ground, coming to the surface with the warm
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: rains of spring. Worms also come to the earth's surface
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: at night. If you look carefully in the garden with
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: a lantern some evening, you may see them. Charlie was
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: looking at his bait box with a good deal of respect.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I guess I'll let the worms have another chance, he said,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: and he dumped them in a heap upon the ground.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: When I regret to say, two hungry robins promptly pounced
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: upon them, and flew jubilantly home, with two of the
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: fattest in their beaks for a meal. The stranger smiled
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: kindly upon Charlie. Never mind, my boy, Old Dame Nature
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: meant the worms for food for the robins, and perhaps
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: bait for your hook when you really need fish for food.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: But she never meant any of us to needlessly harm
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: any living creature. For when you are older and have
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: learned to read well in her great story book, you
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: will find that, after all, from earth worms to kings,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: we are only brothers and sisters. In wise Old Mother
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Nature's great family. I once knew a little boy like
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: you who used to salute every living creature he met
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: with good morning, or good afternoon or good evening. He
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: said it made him feel more friendly toward them. In
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: his spare moments, he loved to watch the woodland creatures
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: and learn the secrets of their busy, useful lives. Where
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: does he live, asked Charlie. Well, when he is not
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: rambling over the earth hunting for curing as insects, he
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: lives in a big city where he sometimes writes books
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: about butterflies and moths and other insects and people who,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: as a rule, know very little about the humbler children
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: of Nature's family give him credit for being a rather
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: wise man, but he really knows very little. There is
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: so much to learn some day when you are a man.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: If you keep your eyes open to what goes on
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: around you, you yourself may know how little That boy
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: is a man now, and takes great pleasure in having
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: introduced you to Master Quito Podder, one of the humblest
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: but most interesting members of Mother Nature's household. And then
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Charlie smiled, for he knew the stranger was talking about himself.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Success end of section five.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Section six of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by Betty B.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: The myrtle warbler Dendroica coronata c C M. One of
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: the most interesting facts concerning this beautiful warbler is that,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: though not common, it is a winter sojourner, and therefore
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: of perpetual interest to the student of birds. About the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: last of March, however, multitudes of them may be seen
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: as they begin to move northward. By the middle of April,
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: all but a few stragglers have left us, and it
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: is not till the last of September that they begin
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: to return, the majority of them arriving about the middle
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: of October. The habitat of the myrtle warbler includes the
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: whole of North America, though it is chiefly found east
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: of the Rocky Mountains, breeding from the northern United States
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: northward into the Arctic regions, and what is regarded as
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: strange for so hardy a bird has been found nesting
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: in Jamaica. Its winter home is from about latitude forty
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: degrees south into southern Central America. The adult female myrtle
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: warbler is similar to the male but much duller in color.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: In winter, the plumage of the sexes is said to
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: be essentially alike. The upper parts are strongly washed with
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: umber brown, and lower parts more or less suffused with
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: paler wash of the same. The young have no yellow anywhere,
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: except sometimes on the rump. The whole plumage is thickly
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: streaked above and below with dusky and grayish white. The
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: places to study these attractive warblers are the open woods
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: and borders of streams in their northern winter homes. During
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: the winter months, spiders, eggs, and larvae of insects constitute
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: their principal food, though they also feed upon the berries
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: of the poison ivy, and in the early spring as
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: they move northward, upon insects that gather about the unfolding leaves,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: buds and blossoms. Colonel Goss says that in the spring
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: of eighteen eighty he found the birds in large numbers
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: on Briar Island and other places in Nova Scotia, feeding
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: along the beach in company with the horned lark, upon
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: the small flies and other insects that swarm about the
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: kelp and debris washed upon the shore. They utter almost
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: continually as they flit about a tweet note, the males
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: often flying to the tops of the small hemlocks to
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: give vent to their happiness and song, which is quite
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: loud for warblers, rather short, but soft and pleasing. These
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: birds usually build their nests in low trees and bushes,
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: but mister mac farlane, who found them nesting at Anderson River,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: says they occasionally nest on the ground. Mister Bremer says
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: that in the summer of eighteen fifty five, early in July,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: he obtained a nest of the myrtle warbler in Parsborough,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Nova Scotia. It was built in a low bush in
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: the midst of a small village and contained six eggs.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: The parents were very shy, and it was with great
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: difficulty that one of them was secured for identification. The
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: nest was built on a horizontal branch, the smaller twigs
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: of which were so interlaced as to admit of being
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: built upon them, though their extremities were interwoven into its rim.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: The nest was small for the bird, being only two
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: inches in depth and four and a half in diameter.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: The cavity was one and one half inches deep and
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: two and a half wide. Its base and external portions
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: consisted of fine, light, dry stalks of wine grasses and
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: slender twigs and roots. Of the last, the firm, strong
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: rim of the nest was exclusively woven. Within the nest
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: were soft, fine grasses, downy feathers, and the fine hair
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: of small animals. The eggs are three to six white
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: to greenish white, spotted and blotched with varying shades of umber,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: brown to blackish and pale lilac in form. They are
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: rounded oval in autumn, when the myrtle warblers return from Canada,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: they mostly haunt the regions where the juniper and bayberries
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: are abundant. The latter Myrica sarah fara or myrtle waxberries,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: as they are frequently called, and which are the favored
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: food of this species, have given it their name. These
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: warblers are so restless that great difficulty is experienced in
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: identifying them. End of section six. This record is in
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  Speaker 4: the public domain.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Section seven of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot Org. Taffy and
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Trixie Caroline Croninshield Bascombe. A few of my readers may
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: know who Taffy and Trixie are, but as more will not,
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I think it best to introduce them. Taffy is the
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: handsomest tiger cat I have ever seen, and as he
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: has the crook in his tail, he belongs to the
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: tatty breed. Taffy is very large, usually weighing fourteen pounds,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: but he has a very small head and very small,
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: finely shaped paws. The under parts of them look like
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: black velvet in color. He is jet black, and the
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: other fur very much like a raccoon's light tan at
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: the ends, shading into yellow, then into drab as the
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: sun strikes him. Every hair seems full of light, and
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: he is one mass of iridescent colors. His marking is
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: most beautiful. The top of his head is black, branching
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: out into five narrow black stripes. Down his neck a
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: black stripe three inches wide without one light hair, going
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: all the way down the back and to the end
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: of the tail, and under two inches of course on
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: the tail. The stripe is much narrower then narrow black
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: stripes go down each side of his back and tail.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: His tail is not long, but very bushy, like a
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: nice boa. I never saw more exquisite coloring and marking
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: than Taffy has underneath, from his throat to his tail.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: His coat is beautifully soft and thick, and shines like satin,
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: and his eyes are very green. He is particular about
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: his toilet, but insists upon my helping him to keep
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: it glossy. His own comb is kept on my dressing table,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: and he asks me to comb him twice a day,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: and sometime oftener. I can tell you nothing of Taffy's antecedents,
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: as I found him one morning in our back yard,
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: starved almost to death, and about as thick through the
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: body as a shingle. At first I thought he had
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: dropped down from heaven, but I soon learned from his
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: sayings and doings that he must have been quite intimate
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: with the inmates of the lower region. I tempted him
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: with chicken, but it was some little time before I
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: could put my hand on him. And to tame any animal,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: you must be able to touch it with your hand.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: After two or three pats, he seemed to realize that
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: I was a good friend. Soon I had him in
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: the house, and for three years we have been devoted
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: to each other. I have had a great many cats,
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: but never one who had so much of the wild
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: animal in him. All of my friends said I could
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: never tame Taffy, and it was many weeks before I
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: had much influence over him. And I never feel quite
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: sure now whether I am to be loved or scratched,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: as he still has the temper and the actions of
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: a tiger. When anything goes the wrong way, he usually
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: lies down like a tiger, with legs straight out in front,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: tail straight out behind, And when I speak to him,
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: he will always blink his eyes and speak to me.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: If you touch him in passing, he will grab at
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: your feet and spit and growl. He never muse when
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: he wants anything to eat, but will chase me or
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: my maid and grab at our feet. If he does
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: not like what he is given to eat, he will
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: walk all about his plate and scratch as if he
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: were covering it up. I am the only one Taffy
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: ever shows much affection for, but to me he is
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: very loving. He will lie as long as I will
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: let him, with his paws around my neck. And head
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: on my shoulder. If he is sound asleep anywhere and
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: I begin to read aloud, sing or whistle, he will
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: get directly up, jump on my lap, put his paws
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: around my neck, his face close to mine, and begin
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: to purr. As he always looks very pleasant. I flatter
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: myself that he likes the tone of my voice. When
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: I had my bird, little Billy, it would make Taffy
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: simply furious if I put him out of my room
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: and close the door. One morning, he was so ugly
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: my maid did not dare open the door to come in.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: After that, when I wanted him to go downstairs, I
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: had my maid come to the bottom of the stairs
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: and call Taffy. Then there was never any trouble. When
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: he is in a tearing rage, I can always quiet
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: him by taking tight hold of his paws and kissing
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: his eyes. I have told all of these things about
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: Taffy so my readers will appreciate what I have been
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: able to do with him. It is needless to say
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: that when Little Billy went away, Taffy was the happiest
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: cat in town. His devotion increased daily to me, and
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: he lived in my room, only going down to get
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: something to eat. I think by this time you are
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: very well acquainted with mister Taffy, and I will present
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: Trixie to you. Of all the canary birds I have
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: ever seen, Trixie is the prettiest, daintiest little bird you
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: can possibly imagine. His color is light yellow, with a
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: much deeper shade between his wings, shading into almost an orange.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: His wings and tail are white, with just a line
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: of yellow on some of the feathers. His eyes are
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: unusually large and bright, and his little legs and claws
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: are very pink and so slender they do not look
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: strong enough to support his finely shaped body. Trixy came
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: from George H. Holden's New York, so you will all
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: know that he is a very superior bird and sings
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: like an angel. Trixey had never been out of his
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: cage when he came to me, but before I had
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: had him a week, he came out, perched on my finger,
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: took things from my finger or mouth, would kiss me
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: and go all about my room on my finger, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: very soon went all about the house with me. He
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: was very fond of sweet apple, but I never let
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: him have it inside his cage, but made him come
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: to me for it. I kept a piece and a
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: little dish on my table, and he soon found out
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: where it was and would help himself on the sly.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: I also kept on my table in a little china
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: cup some hemp seed, which I gave to Trixy as
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: a great treat. Every time I would tap on the
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: cup and make it ring, Trixie would come out of
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: his cage, down from a picture frame or wherever he was,
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: or a seed. One day, he had had his one
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: hemp seed and teased from but I said no, and
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: he went flying about the room having a fine time.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Soon he flew back on the table, hopped over to
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: the cup, gave it two or three taps to make
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: it ring, then hopped on to the top, reached down
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: and helped himself to two seeds. Trixie is a very
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: vain little bird, and likes nothing better than to go
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: over on my dressing table, walk back and forth in
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: front of the mirror, or stit on my pin cushion,
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: and admire himself. Trixie came to me one afternoon, and
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: Taffy knew nothing about his arrival until the next morning,
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: when he came upstairs and saw a little yellow bird
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: in a house of gold. He was like the little
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: girl's buddy who was not a bit afraid, but awfully
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: much surprised when she heard firecrackers for the first time.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: His eyes were like balls of fire, while his mouth
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: opened and shut, making a hissing sound, and his tail
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: going at a rate of a mile a minute. He
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: walked into my room like a wild tiger, with an
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: air as much to say, if this is little Billy,
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: come back in yellow, die he must, and sprang at
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: the cage. I took him firmly by the pause, looked
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: straight into his big, angry eyes, and said, in a soft,
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: firm voice, Taffy, this is Trixy, and he is not
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: to be ateen or hurt any more than my little
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Billy who went away. I let go his paws. He
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: walked out of my room and downstairs without looking back.
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: In about an hour, I looked out into the hall,
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: and there sat my dear old Taffy on the top step,
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: looking very meek and wishful. I spoke kindly to him
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: and asked him to come in and see his new
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: brother Trixie. After a few moments, he came in very
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: slowly and went behind my bed, Soon he came from
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: under the valance the cage, sat on a chair and
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: eye in front of it. Never looked at the cage,
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: jumped into my lap, put his paws about my neck,
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: and began loving me. I took him to bed with me,
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: and he never moved until Trixy began to sing in
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: a most delightful way. Then he looked at him and
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: listened very intently. I talked to him and smoothed his feather,
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: and soon he snuggled down on my arms and went
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: to sleep. When he got out of bed, he never
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: glanced at the cage, but went directly downstairs, and I
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: felt I had made a good beginning. Everyone said I
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: could never teach Taffy not to catch Trixie, and the
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: reason his catship did not kill little Billy was because
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: he was afraid of him and so carefully watched. I
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: knew there was not a place in the house I
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: could hang the cage where Taffy could not get at
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: it if he made up his mind to do so.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: Of course, for days and weeks I felt anxious and
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: did not mean to leave him alone together. I never
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: turned Taffy out of my room if he went up
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: to the cage and put up his paw. I would say, Taffy,
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: you must not put your paw on the cage, and
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: as he always minds, he would take it right down,
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: sit by the cage, and I would talk to him kindly. Fortunately,
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: Trixy was not at all afraid of Tavvy. Taffy always
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: wears a yellow satin collar with bells all round. Often
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: I would hear him coming upstairs when I was lying down,
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: and I would keep very quiet to see what he
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: would do. Sometimes he would come over to the cage,
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: look at Trixie pleasantly, then lie down by the fire
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: and go to sleep. More often he would lie down
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: without even looking at him, But the moment he heard me
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: talking to Trixy, he would get up and come to
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: me to be petted, and I always gave him a
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: great deal. One day, when Taffy was in another room,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: I let Trixie out and tried to be very quiet.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: I was sitting on the floor with Trixie hopping about me.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Before I hardly knew it, Taffy was in my lap,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: and soon I had Trixie on my knee eating seeds.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: If I took the cage on my lap with Trixie inside,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: Taffy would immediately jump up and crowd in between the
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: cage and me. Taffy was very much afraid the first
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: time he sawt Trixy take his bath, and ran under
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: the bed and peeped out from under the bloss One morning,
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: the cage sat on the floor and Trixie was ready
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: for his bath. When Taffy came in and sat close
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: to the cage. Trixy took a big drop of water
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: into his bill and threw it into Taffy's face. Taffy
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: moved back a little and looked all about to see
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: where it came from. While he was looking, Trixie went
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: into his bath and splashed the water all over Taffy's
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: face in a very roguish way. To say, Taffy was surprised.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: As speaking mildly, he turned to me with an angry
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: cry and went out of a room. The next morning,
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: the same thing happened, but instead of going out of
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: the room, he went on the other side, out of
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: reach of the water, but where he could see all
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: that went on. After that, he became so interested he
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: did not mind if the water was splashed all over
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: his face, and would sit as close to the cage
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: as he could. While Trixy was eating his breakfast, he
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: would lie down close to the cage and go to sleep.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: As I previously said, I never meant to leave Taffy
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: in the room with Trixy, but he was often there
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: hours before I knew it when I found him. He
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: was always asleep in front of the cage or by
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: the fire. One morning, after the bath, I put the
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: cage up in the window. Taffy did not seem to
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: like it at all. He looked at me most wishfully
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: and began talking in cat language, and I knew he
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: was saying, please put Trixie back on the floor. I
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: did so, and Taffy began to sing, Lying down with
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: his back close to the cage, stretched out and went
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: to sleep. He had been lying that way for an
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: hour when some visitors came. It seemed too bad to
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: disturb Taffy, so I left him and thought I would
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: risk it. Two hours passed before I went back, and
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: you may imagine my delight when I found my two boys,
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: so different in color, size and disposition, as happy as
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: two kittens. Trixie was singing merrily. Taffy had wakened, changed
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: his position and looked as if he felt very proud
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: being left to take care of his small brother. His
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: eyes were as soft as velvet, and he spoke to
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: me in a soft, cooing tone. Since then, I have
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: never felt there was any danger in leaving them together.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: I regret to say Trixy has a strong will of
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: his own and almost as bad a temper as Taffy.
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: At different times I had three wee baby birds brought
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: in to me, but they all died. Trixy was very
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: jealous of them, and when he saw me feeding them,
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: he would become very angry, beat his wings against his cage,
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: and begged for me to let him out. One day,
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: I put one of the little strangers on the floor
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: and let Trixy out. He flew at the wave and
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: tore feathers out of the top of its head. I
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: took the poor little frightened thing in my hand. Trixie
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: flew on my finger and pecked at him. I put
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: him in my other hand, and trix He flew at him,
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: more angry than ever. Then I put him on the floor,
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: and Trixy was so happy. He flew on my head,
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: hopped about my shoulders, and kissed me in the mouth.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: In the middle of the performance in walked dignified mister
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Taffy with a look which plainly said, what more are
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: you going to bring into this room? He sat by
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: my side looking at the newcomer, and before I knew
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: what he was going to do, reached out his paw
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: and gave him a good slap which sent him off
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: my lap on to the floor. Early in the fall,
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: before I had any fire in my room, I would
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: bring Trixie down in the morning and keep him until evening.
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: And for two weeks Taffy never went near my room
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: during the day, but stayed down there with Trixie. The
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: first day I had a fire in my room, I
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: did not bring Trixie down as usual. After I gave
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: Taffy his luncheon, I missed him, but did not go
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: to my room until five o'clock, and there was faithful
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: Taffy sound asleep close to Trixy's cage. And now he
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: stays in my room all day. He has plainly shown
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: that if Trixie stays there, he stays too. I find
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: that animals want to be treated very much like children.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: The more intelligent they are, the easier it is to
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: influence them, and the quicker they are to read. You
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: first give them a great deal of love and kindness,
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: Always be firm, very patient, and above all, never deceived
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: them in the most trivial thing. I hope this little
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: sketch of Taffy's and Trixie's life may be of some
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: help to those who love cats and dogs but have
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: felt they could not teach them to live in harmony together.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: End of section seven. Recording by Todd.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: Section eight of Birds in All Nature, Volume six, number one,
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: June eighteen ninety nine, Recorded for LibriVox dot org. A
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: suggestion to oologists Frank L. Burns in Oberlin Bulletin. Before
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: we enter upon another active campaign of bird nesting, it
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: is fitting that we should pause a moment to reflect
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: upon the true aim of our toil, risks and trouble,
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: as well as delight and recreation. How many of us
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: can define the phrase collecting for scientific purposes, which, like liberty,
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: is the excuse for many crimes. If it is true,
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: as has been asserted, that uology is a scientific study
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: has been a disappointment. I am convinced that it is
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: not on account of its limited possibilities, but simply because
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: the average zoologists devote so much time to the collection
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: and bartering of specimens that no time is left for
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: the actual study of the accumulating shells. In other words,
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: he frequently undertakes a journey without aim or object. The
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: oologist has done much toward clearing up the life history
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: of many of our birds, but as observations of this
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: nature can often be accomplished without the breaking up of
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: the home of the parent bird, it alone will not
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: suffice as an excuse for indiscriminate collecting. After preparing the
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: specimen for the cabinet, his responsibility does not end, but
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: only begins. A failure to add something to the general
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: knowledge is robbing the public as well as the birds.
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: He who talks fluently of the enforcement of strict laws
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: for the preservation of our wife birds, their nests and eggs,
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: and fails to protect and encourage those about his premises
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: fall short of his duty. And if his cabinet contains birds,
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: skins or egg shells which might just as well have
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: remained where nature placed them, he is inconsistent, demanding that
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: others abstain that he may indulge. In conclusion, I would
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: say that when an aologist constantly keeps in mind and
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: acts under the assumption that the birds are his best
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: friends and not his deadly enemies. He cannot go far wrong,
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: and the means he employs will be justified in the
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: light of subsequent study and research of data and specimens.
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: If any of us fall short in this, we have
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: only ourselves to blame. Let us then collect with moderation
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: and fewer eggs and more notes be the o of
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: the day. End of section eight. This recording is in
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: the public domain.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Section nine of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number one,
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by Betty B.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: The blue winged yellow warbler Hellmanthophila pinnis not A great
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: deal is known about many of the warblers, and comparatively
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: little has been observed of this member of the very
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: large family comprising more than one hundred species. This specimen
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: is also recognized by the name of the blue winged
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: swamp warbler. Its habitat is eastern United States, chiefly south
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: of forty degrees and west of the Alleghenies, north irregularly
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: to Massachusetts and Michigan, and west to border of the
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: Grape Place. In winter, it lives in eastern Mexico and Guatemala.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: It has been pointed out that the name of this
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: bird is misleading, as the blue of the wing is
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: dull and inconspicuous, and not blue at all in the
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: sense in which this colour distinction is applied to some
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: other birds. When applied to the warblers, it simply means
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: either a bluish gray or slate, which seems barely different
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: from plain gray at a short distance. In half cleared
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: fields which have grown up to sprouts, and in rich
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: open woods in the bottom lands where the switch cane
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  Speaker 4: forms a considerable proportion of the undergrowth, the blue winged
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: yellow warbler is one of the characteristic birds, says Ridgeway.
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: The male is a persistent singer during the breeding season
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: and thus betrays his presence to the collector, who finds this,
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: of all species, one of the easiest to procure. The
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: song is very rude. The nest is built on the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: ground among upright stalks, resting on a thick foundation of
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: dry leaves. The eggs are four or five, white with
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  Speaker 4: reddish dots. The food of the warbler consists almost wholly
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: of spiders, larvae and beetles, such as are found in bark,
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  Speaker 4: bud or flour. The birds are usually seen consorting in pairs.
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  Speaker 4: The movements of this warbler are rather slow and leisurely,
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  Speaker 4: and like a chickadee, it may sometimes be seen hanging
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  Speaker 4: head downward while searching for food. End of section nine.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 7: Domain Section ten of Birds and Old Nature, volume six,
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  Speaker 7: one June eighteen ninety nine. Recorded for Librivokes dot Org
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  Speaker 7: by the Badish quote we hear if we attend a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: singing in the sky end quote Richard Ralph. Fair are
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 7: the flowers and the children, But their subtle suggestion is
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 7: fairer rare is the rose burst of dawn, But the
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: secret that clasps it is rarer sweet. The exultance of song,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 7: but the strain that precedes it is sweeter. And never
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: a poem was writ but the meaning outmaster the meter.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 7: Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing.
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  Speaker 7: Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: Never a Shakespeare that sword, but a stronger that he
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 7: did enfold him. But a prophet foretold, but a mightier
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 7: seer hath foretold him. Back of the canvas that throbs
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 7: the painter is hinted and hidden into the statue that breathes.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: The soul of the sculptor is bidden. Under the joy
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 7: that is felt lie the infinite issues of feeling. Crowning
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 7: the glory revealed is the glory that crowns the revealing.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: Great are the symbols of being, but that which is
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: symboled is greater. Vast the creation beheld, but vaster the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: inward creator. Back of the sounds brutes, the silence, back
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: of the gift stands, the giving back of the hand
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 7: that receives thrills, the sensitive nerve of receiving. Space is
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 7: nothing to spirit. The deed is outdone by the doing.
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  Speaker 7: The heart of the war is warm, but warmer the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: heart of the waring. And up from the pits where
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: these shiver, and up from the heights where those shine
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: twin voices and shadows swim starward, and the essence of
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  Speaker 7: life divine. End of section ten. This recording is in
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  Speaker 7: the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Section eleven of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 8: June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 8: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: or to volunteer, Please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: Jill Ingall Out Science, Frederick A. VOD Principal, Central High School, Buffalo.
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  Speaker 8: The first step to take in teaching science to young
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: people and in popularizing the study among older people, is
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: to throw away much of the traditional polysyllabic phraseology and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: use a little common sense and good old Anglo saxon
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: now and then to teach nature instead of science. There
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: is not only great danger in being too technical, but
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: in telling too much. We all like to talk on
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: our pet subjects. We rattle along, airing our opinions and
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: pouring out big volumes of knowledge, and expect the poor pupils,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: like great dry sponges, to absorb the gracious gift. But
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: they don't absorb. It isn't their business. They belong to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 8: quite another sub kingdom. And while we are just about
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: to congratulate ourselves on our facility of expression and wise beneficence,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: we are rudely made aware that our eloquence was all lost,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 8: and we're still we have been guilty of report Russian
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: a stifling natural curiosity and crushing what might become a priceless,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 8: inquiring intellectual habit. Is it any wonder that so few
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: ever go on with this geology, mineralogy, botany or zoology
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: after they leave school? What is our object as teachers?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: Is it to cram geology and botany down passive throats
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: in one or two school terms? Or is it to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: lead our students so gently and awaken so keen a
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  Speaker 8: desire they shall study these sciences all their lives, to
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  Speaker 8: be a never ending joy, a pure pleasure, and a
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 8: solace among coming cares and darkening days. Oh, I too
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: have been guilty, and may Heaven forgive my exceeding foolishness.
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  Speaker 8: The remainder of my days are being spent in penance,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: in propitiating the office of the recording Angel by a
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  Speaker 8: more humble and righteous way of life. So much for
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 8: the language of the teacher, and now for the means
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 8: of giving reality to his teaching efforts. This can only
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: be done by the laboratory method or investigation in the field,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: with the latter outdoor work only does this paper especially
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  Speaker 8: treat actual contact with nature. While I do not for
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: a moment decry the use of books, either for collateral
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  Speaker 8: reading or for text books, in fact, I plead for
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: a wider reading and profounder study of the best scientific writers. Still,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: I feel, just as you must feel, that there is
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  Speaker 8: something radically wrong in much of our science teaching, and
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 8: that we have come to regard books as more real
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: than the earth, the sky, the rocks, the plants, and
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: the animals, which are all about us. Just why this
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: is so? I am unable to understand. Nature is so
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 8: lavish on all sides. Easy of access are the phenomena
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 8: and the realities, while the schoolroom is artificial and the
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  Speaker 8: teacher alas in perfect keeping with the schoolroom. Can it
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  Speaker 8: be that pupils are averse to actual contact with nature?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 8: Not at all? From the earliest childhood throughout life there
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  Speaker 8: is in most persons a remarkable turn toward curious investigation
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: and thorough understanding of things of nature. That I know
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: from my own experience. While teaching in the grammar schools,
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  Speaker 8: one day I asked the pupils to bring me in
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: any specimens of stones they might find in the vacant
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  Speaker 8: lots and the fields, and then I promised to give
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  Speaker 8: them a talk about these stones. I expected perhaps twenty
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: or thirty specimens. What was my amazement and secret horror
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 8: when the next day, and the next came dozens and
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 8: dozens of specimens, until in a few days I had
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  Speaker 8: over a ton and a half containing three thousand specimens.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: There were granites, nieces, schists, and quartzes. There were sandstones, slates, shales, limestones,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 8: glacial scratchings, marbles and onyx. There were geodes, crystals, ores, stone, hammers, arrowheads,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 8: brick bats, furnace, flag and fossils. I took everything smilingly,
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  Speaker 8: and at night the janitor and I buried many duplicates
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  Speaker 8: and the useless stuff in a deep poll where they
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't be likely to get hold of it again. We
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  Speaker 8: soon possessed an excellent cabinet full and had fine times
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  Speaker 8: talking about the making of stones, the crust of the earth,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: former inhabitants, the Great Ice Age, and such simple geology
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  Speaker 8: as they could understand, and they did understand. That did
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: not end it. We studied plants in the same way
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 8: physics and chemistry with homemade apparatus. Of course, it all
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  Speaker 8: took time and a good deal of it, and there
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: wasn't any extra pay for it either. But there are
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: labors whose recompense is far more precious than dollars and
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  Speaker 8: cents and so I find enthusiasm also for outdoor science
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  Speaker 8: among secondary pupils and among the great body of intelligent
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: people of our cities. And if nature is so accessible
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  Speaker 8: and pupils are so eager for its secrets, and we
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  Speaker 8: still worship books and ignore the visible objects and forces
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  Speaker 8: so freely at our disposal, there is no other conclusion
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  Speaker 8: to arrive at, except that the teacher himself is either
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  Speaker 8: too ignorant or too indolent to make proper use of them.
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  Speaker 8: It takes time, It needs enthusiasm, It needs a genuine
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  Speaker 8: love for the subject in hand, and a profound interest
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  Speaker 8: in and sympathy with the student. The subjects in which
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  Speaker 8: field work may be made very useful our geography, geology, botany,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: and zoology, and the objects are of course apparent to
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  Speaker 8: all first. It cultivates a familiarity with nature which is
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  Speaker 8: wholesome and desirable. We are living in an artificial age.
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  Speaker 8: Children nowadays get too much pocket money. There's too much
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  Speaker 8: theater smartness, too much flabbiness for the real business of life,
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  Speaker 8: too much blaise yawning, too many parties, too much attention
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  Speaker 8: to dress, the color of the necktie, the crease of
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  Speaker 8: the trousers, or the make of a gown. The only
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  Speaker 8: meaning science has for many of the richer classes is
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: the curved ball of the picture, the maneuvers of quarterback,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 8: or the manly art of self defense. I know of
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  Speaker 8: nothing that will counteract the indifference of parents and lead
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  Speaker 8: the young mind back to a simpler and more humanizing
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  Speaker 8: condition of life than to make it familiar with old
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  Speaker 8: mother Earth, the stream, the valley, the tree, the flower,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 8: and the bird. Another object of field work is to
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  Speaker 8: develop habits of correct observation. Pupils ordinarily take too much
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  Speaker 8: for granted. They will swallow anything that is printed in
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 8: a book or that the teacher may choose to tell, always,
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  Speaker 8: providing the pupil is sufficiently awake to perform the function,
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  Speaker 8: it is hardly the exaggeration that they would believe the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 8: moon was made of green cheese, providing the statement came
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  Speaker 8: with august solemnity from the teacher's chair. There is too
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  Speaker 8: hasty generalization and a prevailing unwillingness to careful examination. Careful
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  Speaker 8: field work opens the eyes and corrects much of the
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  Speaker 8: slovenly mode of thinking. Creates honest doubt and questions. An
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  Speaker 8: unsupported statement the pupil wants to see the pollen on
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  Speaker 8: the bee before he believes in cross fertilization. He wants
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  Speaker 8: to see rocks actually in layers before he will believe
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  Speaker 8: that they have been deposited in water. Andy pounds up
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  Speaker 8: a fragment of sandstone to get at the original sand.
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  Speaker 8: He wants to see the actual castings before he will
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  Speaker 8: believe all that Darwin says about his wonderful earthworms. And
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  Speaker 8: few things escape the eye of the pupil, who go
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  Speaker 8: out with the understanding that it is business and their
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  Speaker 8: duty to observe and take notes. Another object of field
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  Speaker 8: study is to see life in its invironment. Stuffed birds
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 8: and animals in cases are all very good. Shells look
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  Speaker 8: pretty behind nice glass doors, and herbaria play a very
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  Speaker 8: important part. Yet, after all, how much better to see
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 8: a thrush's flight, to hear the peewee's song. How much
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 8: more satisfactory to watch a snail creep and feed. How
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 8: much more delightful to study the blossoming hepatica, to note
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  Speaker 8: its various leaves, its soil, its surroundings, and discover why
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  Speaker 8: it blooms at the very opening of springtime. More can
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  Speaker 8: be learned from a handful of pebbles on the beach
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  Speaker 8: than a whole book written upon the same subject. Yet
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  Speaker 8: another object is to acquire specific information not contained in books.
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  Speaker 8: The feel of a leaf, the odor of the honeysuckle
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  Speaker 8: or the pine, the cry of the kingfisher, the locomotion
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  Speaker 8: of a horse and the locomotion of a cow, the
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  Speaker 8: formation of miniature gold in a rainstorm, and the wearing
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  Speaker 8: of a shore under the action of the waves. These
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  Speaker 8: and countless other manifestations can never be described in mere words.
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  Speaker 8: The School Journal, end of section eleven.
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  Speaker 4: Section twelve of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 4: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by Betty b.
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  Speaker 4: The golden winged warbler hellman Thophila chrysoptera. This member of
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  Speaker 4: the large family of warblers is considered rare or only
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  Speaker 4: common in certain localities of its range, which is eastern
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  Speaker 4: United States in summer and Central America in winter. Its
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  Speaker 4: common names are blue golden winged warbler and golden winged
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  Speaker 4: swamp warbler. It makes its appearance in May, when it
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  Speaker 4: may occasionally be seen about orchards. It soon retires into
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  Speaker 4: dense underbrush, however, and few persons who are not woodsmen
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  Speaker 4: ever get more than a glimpse of it. It breeds
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  Speaker 4: all through its range, but only casually north of Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: It builds its nest on or near the ground in
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  Speaker 4: a plant tuft. It is made of grass and is
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  Speaker 4: deep and bulky. The eggs are four or five white
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  Speaker 4: with reddish dots. Ridgeway says that June eighteen eighty five
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  Speaker 4: he found these birds breeding along the southern edge of
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  Speaker 4: Calhoun Prairie, Richland County, Illinois, and mister H. K. Cole
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  Speaker 4: states that on May eleventh, eighteen eighty four, in a
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  Speaker 4: wood on the kanka Kee River in Stark County, Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: he found the golden winged warbler quite common. Eight were seen,
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  Speaker 4: all males which were singing. Some were flushed from the
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  Speaker 4: ground and flew up to the nearest small tree, where
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  Speaker 4: they sat mosttionless, next the trunk. The locality was a
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  Speaker 4: moist situation overgrown with young trees and bushes. End of
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  Speaker 4: section twelve. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Section thirteen of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 9: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot Or by
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  Speaker 9: Ashley Jane. Section thirteen pet Animals as causes of disease.
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  Speaker 9: Papers presented last summer at the French Congress for Tuberculosis
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  Speaker 9: at Paris demonstrate, says the Medical News, what has hitherto
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  Speaker 9: been very doubtful, that aviary and human to berculosis are
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  Speaker 9: essentially the same pathologic process, due to the same germ
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 9: modified by a cultural environment, but convertible under favorable circumstances
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  Speaker 9: one into the other. An Englishman has found that more
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  Speaker 9: than ten percent of canaries and other songbirds that die
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: in captivity succumbed to tuberculosis, and parrots have come in
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  Speaker 9: for a share of condemnation in this connection. By far
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  Speaker 9: the larger number of monkeys who die in captivity are
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 9: carried off by tuberculosis, and while fortunately the keeping of
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  Speaker 9: monkeys as house pets is not very general, at the
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  Speaker 9: same time there is some danger of contagion. No Card,
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  Speaker 9: the greatest living authority on tuberculosis in animals, and the
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  Speaker 9: man to whom we owe the best culture methods for
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  Speaker 9: the tubercle Bacillus, found in a series of autopsies on
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 9: dogs that out of two hundred successive autopsies on unselected
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  Speaker 9: dogs that died at the Great Veterinary School at Alfort,
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  Speaker 9: near Paris. In more than one half the cases there
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  Speaker 9: were tubercular lesions, and in many of them the lesions
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  Speaker 9: were of such a character as to make them facile
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  Speaker 9: and plenteous disseminators of infective tuberculosis materials. Parrots are known
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  Speaker 9: to be susceptible to a disease peculiar to themselves, and
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  Speaker 9: a number of fatal cases in human beings of what
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  Speaker 9: was at first supposed to be malignant influenza pneumonia was
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  Speaker 9: traced to the bucillus which is thought to be the
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  Speaker 9: cause of the parrot disease. Cats are sometimes known to
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  Speaker 9: have tuberculosis, and that they have in many cases been
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  Speaker 9: carriers of diphtheria and other ordinary infections is more than suspected.
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  Speaker 9: There is not at present any great need for a
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  Speaker 9: crusade on sanitary grounds against the keeping of pet animals,
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  Speaker 9: but they are multiplying more and more, and it does
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 9: not seem unreasonable that greater care in the matter of
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  Speaker 9: determining the first signs of disease should be demanded of
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  Speaker 9: their owners, and then so guarding them as to prevent
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 9: their being a source of contagion to human beings. Attention
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  Speaker 9: should be paid to this warning as regards children, as
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  Speaker 9: animals play more freely with them and the children are
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  Speaker 9: more apt to be infected. End of section thirteen.
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  Speaker 10: Recording by Ashley Jane, Section fourteen of Birds in All Nature,
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  Speaker 10: Volume six, number one, June eighteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 11: This is a liprivox recording. All the privox recordings are
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  Speaker 11: in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 11: please visit liprivox dot org. Recording by AVAI in July
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  Speaker 11: twenty sixteen. A fly catching plant by William Carer, highly
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  Speaker 11: Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Queen of the
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  Speaker 11: Marsh Imperial drosera treads, rush fringed banks and moss embroidered beds,
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  Speaker 11: Erasmus Darwin in the Botanic Garden, seventeen eighty nine. Some
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  Speaker 11: of the most interesting forms of nature are not the
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 11: most showy and are not easily observed by the untrained eye.
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  Speaker 11: Many of their characteristics can only be known by carefully
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  Speaker 11: conducted investigations, both in the field and in the laboratory.
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  Speaker 11: The advance of science has shown us that it is
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  Speaker 11: as natural for some plants to obtain much of their
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  Speaker 11: nourishment from the animal world by a true process of feeding,
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  Speaker 11: as it is for animal forms to obtain their sustenance
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  Speaker 11: either directly or indirectly from the vegetable world. There are
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  Speaker 11: many species among the lower orders of plants that are
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 11: well known animal parasites. But there are also, among our
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 11: more highly organized flowering species forms that improvise a stomach
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  Speaker 11: and secrete an acid fluid for the digestion of nitrogenous food,
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  Speaker 11: which is afterwards absorbed and used in tissue building. These
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 11: are in no sense of the term parasites. Such a
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 11: plant is our common round leaved sun dew Drosera rotundifolia l.
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  Speaker 11: The generic name Drosera is from the Greek meaning dew.
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  Speaker 11: This rather insignificant but pretty little plant is distributed nearly
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 11: throughout the world and is usually found in bogs or
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 11: in wet sand near some body of water. The flower
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 11: stalk is seldom more than six or eight inches in
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  Speaker 11: height and bears very small white or pinkish white flowers.
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  Speaker 11: The interesting feature of this species, however, lies in the
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 11: rosette of about five or six leaves growing from the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 11: base of the stem. These leaves lie upon the ground
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 11: and are usually about one fourth to one half of
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 11: an inch in length and are generally nearly orbicular in form.
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  Speaker 11: The upper side is covered with gland bearing tentacles. The
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 11: glands are covered by a transparent and visit secretion which
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 11: glitters in the sunlight, giving rise to the common name
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  Speaker 11: of the plant. There are usually over two hundred tentacles
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  Speaker 11: on each leaf, and when they are not irritated, they
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  Speaker 11: remain spread out. The vised fluid of the glands serves
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  Speaker 11: as an organ of detention when an insect lights upon
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  Speaker 11: the leaf. The presence of an insect, or in fact
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 11: any foreign matter, will cause the tentacles to which it
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  Speaker 11: is adhering to bend inward toward the center of the leaf,
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  Speaker 11: and within a very short time, all the tentacles will
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  Speaker 11: be closed over the captured insect, which is soon killed
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  Speaker 11: by the copious secretion filling its breathing apparatus. Though these
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  Speaker 11: sensitive tentacles are not excited by either wind or rain,
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  Speaker 11: they are by the repeated touchings of a needle or
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  Speaker 11: any hard substance. It is said that a fragment of
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  Speaker 11: hair weighing but one seventy eight thousand, seven hundred fortieth
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  Speaker 11: of a grain, will cause a perceptible movement. By experiment,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 11: it has been shown that a bit of hard boiled
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  Speaker 11: egg or a fragment of meat, as well as an insect,
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  Speaker 11: will cause not only an inflexion of the tentacles but
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 11: also of the edges of the leaves, thus forming an
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  Speaker 11: improvised stomach. The secretion of the glands then increasing and
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  Speaker 11: becoming acid. At this stage, the secretion is not only
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  Speaker 11: capable of digesting, but is on so highly antiseptic. This
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 11: power of digesting and absorbing nitrogenous food is absolutely necessary
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  Speaker 11: to the existence of the sundew, for it usually grows
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  Speaker 11: in a poor soil, and its few and not greatly
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 11: elongated roots are of little service except to absorb water,
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  Speaker 11: of which it needs a large amount for the production
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 11: of the copious secretion. Specimens may be developed by planting
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  Speaker 11: in moist cotton and furnishing with plenty of water. The
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  Speaker 11: length of time that the tentacles will remain inflected depends
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  Speaker 11: on the vigor of the leaf and the solubility of
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 11: the material causing the excitement. The time varies from one
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 11: to seven or eight days. Easily dissolved and readily absorbed
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 11: food in too large an amount seems to cause over
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  Speaker 11: excitement and over taxation and frequently results in the death
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 11: of the leaf. The large number of insects, especially flies,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 11: captured by these plants plants would lead one to believe
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 11: that they are attracted by the odor of the plant
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 11: or the purplish color of the tentacles, rather than by
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 11: the desire to use the leaves as a resting place.
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  Speaker 11: The sun dew belongs to the natural order Drosera caa.
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  Speaker 11: This contains about one hundred and twenty five species, of
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  Speaker 11: which one hundred and ten belong to the genus Drosera
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  Speaker 11: and are chiefly natives of Australia, though the round leaved
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 11: species is common throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 11: Closely related to the sundew is the venus flytrap Dionea
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 11: mascipula elis. This is a native in the eastern part
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 11: of North Carolina. Only The leaf of this plant is
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 11: provided with two lobes, which close quickly. When the sensitive hairs,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 11: which are situated on the upper surface of the leaf
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 11: are irritated by an insect. The asset secretion flows out
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 11: and the leaves remain closed till digestion and absorption are completed.
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  Speaker 11: Doctor A sac Gray has referred to this species as
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 11: that most expert of flycatchers. End of section fourteen.
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  Speaker 12: Section fifteen of Birds in All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 12: June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 12: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 12: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 12: Phil Shampf. Trees and Eloquence W. E. Watt. Forty years
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 12: in the pulpit of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, Henry Ward
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 12: Beecher stood and poured forth a stream of eloquence which
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 12: shook the world during the stress of Civil War. He
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 12: stemmed the current of English sentiment with his peculiar power,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 12: and brought about a change of feeling, which was the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 12: salvation of our union. This greatest of our pulpit orators
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 12: was a lover of trees, and some of his finer
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 12: passages were inspired by them. Without doubt, better trees there
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 12: might be than even the most noble and beautiful. Now,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 12: I suppose God has in his thoughts much better ones
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 12: than He has ever planted on this globe. They are
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 12: reserved for the glorious land beneath them. May we walk.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 12: To most people, a grove is a grove, and all
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 12: groves are alike, but no two groves are alike. There
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 12: is as market a difference between different forests as between
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 12: different communities. A grove of pines without underbrush, carpeted with
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 12: the fine fingered russet leaves of the pine and odorous
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 12: of resinous gums, has scarcely a trace of lightness to
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 12: a maple woods, either in the insects, the birds, the shrubs,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 12: the light and shade, or the sound of its leaves.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 12: If we lived in olden times among young mythologies, we
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 12: should say that pines held the imprisoned spirits of naiads
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 12: and water nymphs, and that their sounds were of the water,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 12: for whose lucid depths they always sighed. At any rate,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 12: the first pines must have grown on the seashore and
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 12: learned their first accents from the surf and the waves,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 12: and all their posterity have inherited the sound and borne
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 12: it inland to the mountains. I like best the forest
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 12: of mingled trees, ash, maple, oak, beech, hickory, and evergreens,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 12: with birches growing along the edges of the brook, that
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 12: carries itself through the roots and stones toward the willows
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 12: that grow in yonder meadow. It should be deep and
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 12: somber in some directions, running off into shadowy recesses and
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 12: coverts beyond all footsteps. In such a wood there is
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 12: endless variety. It will breathe as many voices to your
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 12: fancy as might be brought from any organ beneath the
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 12: pressure of some handle's hands. By the way, handle and
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 12: Beethoven always remind me of forests, so do some poets,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 12: whose numbers are as various as the infinity of vegetation,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 12: fine as the choicest cut leaves, strong and rugged in
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 12: places as the unbarred trunk and gnarled ruts at the
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 12: ground's surface. Is there any other place except the sea side,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 12: where hours are so short and moments so swift as
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 12: in the forest. Where else except in the rear communion
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 12: of those friends much loved do we awake from pleasure,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 12: whose calm flow is without a ripple, into surprise that
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 12: whole hours are gone, which we thought but just begun,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 12: blossomed and dropped, which we thought but just budding. Thus
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 12: do you stand, noble elms lifted up? So high are
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 12: your topmost boughs that no indolent birds care to seek you,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 12: and only those of nimble wings, And they with unwonted
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 12: beat that love exertion, and aspire to sing where none
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 12: sing higher as so Heaven gives it pure as flames
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 12: to the noble bosom, but debased with passion and selfishness,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 12: it comes to be only ambition. It was in the
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 12: presence of this pasture elm, which we named the Queen,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 12: that we first felt, to our very marrow that we
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 12: had indeed become owners of the soil. It was with
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 12: a feeling of awe that we looked up into its face,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 12: and when I whispered to myself, this is mine, there
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 12: was a shrinking, as if there were sacrilege in the
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 12: very thought of property in such a creature of God,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 12: as this cathedral topped tree does a man bare his
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 12: head in some old church. So did I, standing in
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 12: the shadow of this regal tree, and looking up into
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 12: that completed glory at which three hundred years have been
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 12: at work with noiseless fingers. What was I in its
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 12: presence but a grasshopper? My heart said, I may not
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 12: call thee property, and that property mine. Thou belongest to
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 12: the air, Thou Art, the child of Summer. Thou art
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 12: the mighty temple where birds praise God. Thou belongest to
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 12: no man's hand, but to all men's eyes that do
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 12: love beauty, and that have learned through beauty to behold God.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 12: Stand Then in thine own beauty, in grandeur. I shall
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 12: be a lover and a protector, to keep drout from
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 12: thy roots and the axe from thy trunk. For remorseless
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 12: men there are crawling yet upon the face of the earth,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 12: smitten blind and inwardly dead, whose only thought of a
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 12: tree of ages is that it is food for the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 12: axe and the saw. These are the wretches of whom
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 12: the scripture speaks. A man was famous, according as he
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 12: had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. Thus famous,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 12: or rather infamous, was the last owner, but one before me,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 12: of this farm. Upon the crown of the hill, just
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 12: where an Art would have planted them, had he wished
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 12: to have them exactly in the right place, grew some
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 12: two hundred stalwart and ancient maples, beeches, ashes, and oaks,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 12: a narrow belt like forest forming a screen from the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 12: northern and western winds in winter, and a harp of
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 12: endless music for the summer. The wretched owner of this farm,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 12: tempted of the devil, cut down the whole blessed band
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 12: and brotherhood of trees, that he might fill his pocket
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 12: with two pitiful dollars a cord for the wood well.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 12: His pocket was the best part of him. The iron
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 12: furnaces have devoured my grove, and their huge stumps that
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 12: stood like gravestones have been cleared away, that a grove
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 12: may be planted in the same spot for the next
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 12: hundred years, to nourish into the stature and glory of
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 12: that which is gone. In many other places I find
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 12: the memorials of many noble trees slain. Here a hemlock
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 12: that carried up as he turnednel green a hundred feet
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 12: into the winter air. There a huge double trunked chestnut.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 12: Dear old grandfather of hundreds of children that have for
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 12: generations clubbed its boughs or shook its nut laden top,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 12: and laughed and shouted as bushels of chestnuts rattled down.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 12: Now the tree exists only in the form of loop
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 12: holed posts and weather browned rails. I do hope the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 12: fellow got a sliver in his fingers every time he
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 12: touched the hemlock plank or let down the bars made
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 12: of those chestnut rails end of section fifteen. This recording
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  Speaker 12: is in the public domain.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 11: Section sixteen of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number one,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 11: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for diprivox dot Org by
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 11: Avay Bats in Burmese Caves. Interesting caves existed pagat twenty
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 11: six miles up the Salvin from mol Maine. They are
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 11: hollowed out of the base of an isolated limestone hill
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 11: about two hundred fifty feet high, rising precipitously from the river.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 11: Captain A. R. S. Anderson, the surgeon naturalist, gives an
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: interesting account of these caves in an Indian government report
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 11: which is abstracted by Natural Science. The entrance is about
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 11: twelve feet high and is much ornamented by Buddhistic sculptures.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 11: As the sun was setting, the party took their stand
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 11: on the sand spit facing the entrance of the caves,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: and soon saw a pair of falcons leave their perch
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: on the trees and fly to and fro over the river.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 11: They were speedily joined by other birds, including common kites
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 11: and jungle crows, and the entire flock to the number
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 11: of sixty or one hundred flew to the entrance of
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 11: the caves, close to which they remained wheeling about in
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 11: mid air. A few minutes later, the bats began to
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 11: issue in ones and twos, and were soon pursued by
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 11: the birds of prey, but appeared to have no great
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 11: difficulty in eluding capture by their rapid and jerky flight,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 11: and the pursuers made no very determined or long sustained
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 11: efforts to capture them, but soon returned to their vigil
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 11: over the cave. A minute or two passed and a
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 11: sudden rush of wings was heard, and the bats were
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 11: seen to emerge from the cave in a dense stream,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 11: which slowly became more and more packed, and continued of
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 11: about the same density for some ten minutes, and then
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 11: gradually thinned away, until at the end of twenty minutes
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 11: the last had emerged. The stream of bats, when at
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 11: its maximum, was ten feet square and so dense as
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 11: to closely resemble smoke pouring from a chimney in a
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 11: gale of wind. This resemblance was increased by the slightly
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 11: sinuous course pursued by the backs as they flew off
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 11: into the afterglow, they were so densely crowded that they
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 11: frequently upset each other and fell helplessly into the river below,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 11: where they succeeded in reaching the bank, only to fall
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 11: the prey to the expectant crow. When the great rush occurred,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 11: the falcons, kites, and crows entered the stream of bats
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 11: and flying along with it, and in it seized as
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 11: many bats as they required for food. Captain Anderson, by
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 11: throwing his walking stick into the stream of bats, obtained
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 11: six specimens. During the last twenty years, the bats appeared
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 11: to have considerably diminished in numbers, owing to the depredations
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 11: of their bird enemies and to their constant disturbance by
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 11: collectors of bat manure. End of section sixteen. This recording
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  Speaker 11: is in the public domain.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: Section seventeen of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 4: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by Betty B.
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  Speaker 4: A metal birds nest in the Museum of Natural History
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: at Solure in Switzerland. There is said to be a
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 4: bird's nest made entirely of steel. There are a number
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: of clock making shops at Sulu, and in the yards
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 4: of these shops that are often found lying disused or
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: broken springs of clocks. One day a clockmaker noticed in
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 4: a tree in his yard a bird's nest of peculiar appearance.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 4: Examining it, he found that a pair of wagtails had
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 4: built a nest entirely of clock springs. It was more
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 4: than four inches across and perfectly comfortable for the birds.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 4: After the feathered architects had reared their brood, the nest
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 4: was taken to the museum, where it is preserved as
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: a striking illustration of the skill of birds in turning
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 4: their surroundings to advantage in building their nests. End of
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  Speaker 4: section seventeen. This recording is in the public domain Section
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  Speaker 4: eighteen of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 4: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LIBRIVOCX by Betty B.
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  Speaker 4: The morning warbler Geothilpus, Philadelphia. Besquet, in his valuable Story
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: of the Birds, says that the warbler forms feed variously,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: but they use little vegetable matter. Some have ground haunting
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 4: and even swamp haunting habits. Others have fringe tongues hinting
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: of juices and nectars, while tree trunk exploring as in creepers,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: nuthatches tit mice et cetera also prevails. They have been
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: described as at once the most fascinating and the most
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 4: exasperating of birds. In the spring, they come with a rush,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: and although the woods may be full of them, only
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: a faint lisp from the tree tops gives note of
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: their presence, and unless you are a very good observer,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: you will not know they are about at all. If
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 4: you listen to other birds instead of resolutely devoting yourself
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: to warblers, you will lose the opportunity of the sight
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: of a diminutive bird disappearing in a tree top. Some
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: of the warblers dash out among the leaves on the ground,
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 4: hunting for gnats. Others hunt over the branches of the trees,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 4: though some of them hop gaily on the ground, while
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 4: others walk sedately, bobbing their heads or tilting their tails.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 4: The majority of the tribe fly northward to nest in
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 4: pine forests. A few, however, remain and build in our parks,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 4: gardens and shrubbery. They are all insect eaters, destroying ants, flies, caterpillars, larvae,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 4: plant lice, canker worms, and mayflies. They are therefore of
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 4: great value in the protection of vegetation. The morning warbler,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: whose common name is black throated ground warbler, has its
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 4: habitat in eastern North America, breeding from northern United States northward.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 4: More rare in the Atlantic States, it winters in southeastern
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 4: Mexico and Costa Rica, and thence south to Columbia during
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 4: the spring migration. This bird is very common. Early in
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: May eighteen eighty one, they were found in abundance near
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: wheatlands in Indiana, most of them being observed about brush
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: piles and a clearing and along fences in the immediate vicinity.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: In the early part of June eighteen seventy one, a
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: pair were seen in a thicket along the border of
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 4: Fox Prairie in Richland County, Illinois, and it was presumed
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 4: at the time that they were breeding there, but they
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 4: may have been merely late migrants. It is known to
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 4: breed in mountainous portions of Pennsylvania, New England, New York, Michigan, Minnesota,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 4: and eastern Nebraska northward. It has been found nesting in
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: Illinois south of latitude thirty nine. Its nest is built
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 4: on or near the ground in woods. One discovered by
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: burrows in the state of New York was built in
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: ferns about a foot from the ground on the edge
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 4: of a hemlock wood. It contained three eggs. The nests
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 4: are usually composed of fine strips of bark and other
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: fibrous material lined with fine hair. The eggs are white,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 4: with a sprinkling of reddish dots near the larger ends.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: The feeling that all life is one Life slumbers in
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 4: the child's soul. Only very gradually. However, can this slumbering
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 4: feeling be transfigured into a waking consciousness. Slowly through a
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: sympathetic study of nature and of human life, Through a
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 4: growing sense of the soul and meaning of all natural
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: facts and of all human relationships, and through recreating in
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: various forms that external world which is but the objective
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 4: expression of his own inmost being, the individual attains to
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 4: a consciousness and unity of life, and to a vision
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: of the eternal fountain of life, the nest end of
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  Speaker 4: section eighteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 13: Section nineteen of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number one,
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  Speaker 13: June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for thebrivox dot Org by
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  Speaker 13: Amy Graymore, untitled The Feeling that All Life is One.
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  Speaker 13: Life slumbers in the child's soul. Only very gradually, however,
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  Speaker 13: can this slumbering feeling be transfigured into awakened consciousness slowly
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  Speaker 13: through a sympathetic study of nature and of human life,
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  Speaker 13: through a growing sense of the soul and meaning of
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  Speaker 13: all natural facts and of all human relationships, And through
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  Speaker 13: recreating in various forms that external world which is but
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  Speaker 13: the objective expression of his own inmost being, the individual
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  Speaker 13: attains to a consciousness and unity of life, and to
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  Speaker 13: a vision of the eternal fountain of life the nest
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  Speaker 13: end of section nineteen. This recording is in the public
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  Speaker 13: domain Section twenty of Birds and All Nature, volume six,
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  Speaker 13: number one, June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 13: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. From our
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  Speaker 13: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 13: by Amy Graymore. The Raven and the Dove by Eleanora
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  Speaker 13: Kinsley marble yea master croaked the raven I understand and
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  Speaker 13: spreading his sable wings over the waste of waters, he flew,
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  Speaker 13: anxious as was Noah, for a sight of dry land.
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  Speaker 13: The day passed, evening fell, and the raven had not returned.
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  Speaker 13: An ill omened bird, gloomily said cham, so black and uncanny,
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  Speaker 13: looking his croak even hath to mine ear an evil sound.
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  Speaker 13: What thou sayest is true, brother, returned ham verily. The
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  Speaker 13: raven hath a wicked look. A bird of more cheerful aspect,
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  Speaker 13: it seemeth to me, might well have been chosen the albatross,
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  Speaker 13: so majestic, with powers of flight excelling all other creatures
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  Speaker 13: of the air, the eagle, or better still, the stormy petrel,
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  Speaker 13: so light of body, its webbed feet enabling it with
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  Speaker 13: expanding wing to rest at will upon the face of
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  Speaker 13: the waters. Coo, came a low, plaintive call from a
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  Speaker 13: far corner. Goo Ah, my turtle dove, responded japhath, so loving,
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  Speaker 13: so true. Had the choice of messenger been left to me,
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  Speaker 13: my brothers verily, would I have chosen the dove naught?
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  Speaker 13: But death would have kept it, believe me from its
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  Speaker 13: mate and us. Noah turned from the window and gazed
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  Speaker 13: sternly upon his three sons. What signifieth the complexion of bird,
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  Speaker 13: beast or man? He demanded gravely, When one standeth in
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  Speaker 13: need of courage, intelligence, and strength among all the wicked
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  Speaker 13: creatures of the air within the ark, canst thou name
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  Speaker 13: one with instinct more subtle than the ravens, black and
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  Speaker 13: uncanny looking forsooth, witness his speech, I tell thee decisively.
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  Speaker 13: The bird hath understanding. As Noah ceased speaking, there came
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  Speaker 13: a low, faint tapping at the window. With a glad countenance.
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  Speaker 13: He hastened to open it, and in flew the raven,
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  Speaker 13: quite exhausted. Water, water everywhere croaked the bird, and, after
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  Speaker 13: warily eating the food Noah gave him, tucked his head
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  Speaker 13: beneath his wing, and was soon fast asleep. Upon the
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  Speaker 13: morning of the next day, Noah again sent the raven forth,
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  Speaker 13: also the next and the next water water everywhere croaked
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  Speaker 13: the raven as before. Upon his return, and, after warily
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  Speaker 13: eating of the food which Noah gave him, tucked his
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  Speaker 13: head beneath his wing, and was soon fast asleep. Verily
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  Speaker 13: sneered Ham, who with his brothers had grown very impatient.
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  Speaker 13: The sable plumaged bird, which thou dost insist upon sending
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  Speaker 13: forth daily, knoweth not to my mind. But the words
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  Speaker 13: which he so glibly speaketh. Surely he hath heard them
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  Speaker 13: uttered a hundred times. Noah reflected what thou sayest, my son,
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  Speaker 13: may be true, he responded, for of a surety, when
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  Speaker 13: gazing from the window, these many, many months, those words
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  Speaker 13: of our speech have been the daily burden. Tomorrow, then
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  Speaker 13: his gaze fixed upon the stormy petrel, we will send forth. Coo,
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  Speaker 13: came a plaintive call from the corner. Coo, the dove,
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  Speaker 13: finished Noah thoughtfully, For verily it doth seem to answer me.
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  Speaker 13: Though devoid of speech, its affectionate nature may yet prompt
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  Speaker 13: it to devise some way by which its message may
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  Speaker 13: be interpreted. And so, upon the morning of the next day,
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  Speaker 13: Noah opened the window of the ark, and the dove,
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  Speaker 13: poising upon his finger, spread her beautiful wings, and over
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  Speaker 13: the waste of waters took her joyful flight. The day passed,
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  Speaker 13: evening fell, and the dove had not returned. A dark
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  Speaker 13: frown was settling upon the brow of Ham when a
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  Speaker 13: faint tapping was heard at the window.
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  Speaker 4: Water water everywhere.
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  Speaker 13: Crooked the raven maliciously, as Noah hastened to open it
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  Speaker 13: and draw the exhausted bird within water water everywhere. Verily,
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  Speaker 13: o raven despondently, said, Noah, it doth appear that the
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  Speaker 13: dove nought more than thou didst find a place for
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  Speaker 13: the soul of her foot. I will wait yet another
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  Speaker 13: seven days, he added thoughtfully. Ere I sent her forth again.
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  Speaker 13: And Noah waited seven days, and on the morning of
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  Speaker 13: the eighth he sent the dove forth again in quest
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  Speaker 13: of dry land. The day passed, but ere evening fell.
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  Speaker 13: The bird returned, bearing in her bill as a token
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  Speaker 13: that the waters had abated a freshly plucked olive. Liif
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  Speaker 13: thou art God's own messenger, joyfully said Noah, tenderly, caressing
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  Speaker 13: the dove. Verily, something more than instinct guided and prompted
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  Speaker 13: thee in thy flight this day, and Noah waited yet
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  Speaker 13: another seven days. Ere he again sent forth the dove,
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  Speaker 13: this time to the ark. The dove returned no more Coo,
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  Speaker 13: more plaintively than usual, called her mate. The next morning. Coo,
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  Speaker 13: he mourns for his lost love, pityingly, said Jayafith, the
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  Speaker 13: youngest son. Verily, something hath befallen the bird, nay, responded, Noah,
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  Speaker 13: Liberty is sweet after long captivity in a dark, close houseboat,
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  Speaker 13: freedom might well try the fidelity of ein a turtledoff
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  Speaker 13: she awaits his coming perchance in the nearest pine or
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  Speaker 13: willow tree. Opened then the window and let him forth.
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  Speaker 13: And Jayfith did as his father commanded, but sorrowfully for
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  Speaker 13: a chance that in close companionship lo these many days
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  Speaker 13: with these innocent children of nature, Jayfith had come to
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  Speaker 13: acquire a tender love and care for both beast and bird.
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  Speaker 13: Go the mourning dove, he said, unconsciously, bestowing a fitting
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  Speaker 13: name upon the gentle bird. Go, and spreading his beautiful
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  Speaker 13: wings off The dove joyfully flew, following with unerring instinct
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  Speaker 13: the path in the air yesterday taken by his mate.
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  Speaker 13: And yet a few days and Noah removed the covering
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  Speaker 13: from the ark and looked, and behold, the face of
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  Speaker 13: the ground was dry. End of Section.
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  Speaker 5: Twenty Section twenty one of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 5: number one, June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for Liberbox by
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  Speaker 5: Tod The mayflowers, the trailing arbutus or mayflower, grows abundantly
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  Speaker 5: in the vicinity of Plymouth, and was the first flower
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  Speaker 5: that greeted the pilgrims after their fearful winter. Sad mayflower
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  Speaker 5: watched by winter stars and nursed by winter gales, with
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  Speaker 5: petals of the sleated spars and leaves of frozen sails.
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  Speaker 5: What had she in those dreary hours within her ice
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  Speaker 5: rimmed bay in common with the wild wood flowers the
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  Speaker 5: first sweet smiles of may. Yet God be praised, the
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  Speaker 5: pilgrim said, who saw the blossoms peer above the brown leaves,
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  Speaker 5: dry and dead. Behold our mayflower here, God wills it here.
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  Speaker 5: Our rest shall be our years of wandering ore for us.
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  Speaker 5: The mayflower of the sea shall spread her sails no
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  Speaker 5: more o, sacred flowers of faith and hope, as sweetly
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  Speaker 5: now as then ye bloom on many a birchant slope,
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  Speaker 5: in many a pine dark glen. Behind the sea wall's
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  Speaker 5: rugged length, unchanged, Your leaves unfold like love behind the
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  Speaker 5: manly strength of thee brave hearts of old. So live
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  Speaker 5: the fathers in their sons. Their sturdy faith be ours,
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  Speaker 5: and ours the love that overruns its rocky strength with flowers.
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  Speaker 5: The pilgrim's wild and wintry day, its shadows round us draws.
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  Speaker 5: The mayflower of his stormy bay are freedom's struggling cause.
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  Speaker 5: But warmer suns ere long shall bring to life the
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  Speaker 5: frozen sod, And through dead leaves of hope shall spring
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  Speaker 5: afresh the Flowers of God Whittier end of Section twenty one.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section twenty two of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 4: number one, June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by
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  Speaker 4: Betty B. The chestnut sided warbler Dendroica pennsylvanica Lynne's Jones.
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  Speaker 4: For one reason or another, we come to think of
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  Speaker 4: this or that bird as an exquisite. This may be
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  Speaker 4: due to color, pattern, form, carriage, or song, but whatever
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  Speaker 4: it be, the bird's presence adds color and beauty to
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  Speaker 4: all our surroundings. It is not easy to tell why
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  Speaker 4: the chestnut sighted warbler impresses me as an exquisite. His
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  Speaker 4: colors are not so bright, nor their pattern in either
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  Speaker 4: the contrast or harmony that may be found with other warblers.
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  Speaker 4: But there seems to be something about the bird that
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  Speaker 4: makes the day brighter, the wearing field work easier, and
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  Speaker 4: hours of fasting forgotten when he flits into view. I
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  Speaker 4: have sometimes half suspected that he was more than half
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  Speaker 4: conscious of my admiration from the manner in which he
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  Speaker 4: displayed his pretty colors and trim form. But no doubt
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  Speaker 4: this is base slander. The slightly opened wings, spread tail
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  Speaker 4: and quick movements given alertness to the little fellow, which
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  Speaker 4: adds to his otherwise bright appearance. The females and fall
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  Speaker 4: birds lack the distinct contrasts of color found in the
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 4: male in his spring dress, but they usually have some
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  Speaker 4: trace of the chestnut on the side of the body, which,
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  Speaker 4: with the small size, will serve to distinguish them from
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  Speaker 4: all others. The tree top seemed to possess few attractions
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  Speaker 4: for this warbler, but in village parks he may often
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  Speaker 4: be found well up among the branches, gleaning from the
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  Speaker 4: buds and new leaves for insects and their eggs. In
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  Speaker 4: the woods he gleans much nearer the ground, but I
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  Speaker 4: have never seen him upon the ground, searching among the
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  Speaker 4: fallen leaves. Many times he may be found among the
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  Speaker 4: low underbrush, preferably not at the edge of the woods,
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  Speaker 4: but usually a few rods in. He seems rather partial
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  Speaker 4: to damp woods, but may often be found among the
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  Speaker 4: uplands as well, where insect life is abundant. The song
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  Speaker 4: is uttered while feeding, the bird, seldom arresting his search
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  Speaker 4: for food, but turning his head this way and that,
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  Speaker 4: scanning each leaf and stem. It is often a less
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  Speaker 4: spirited song than that of many other warblers, seeming to
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  Speaker 4: be a sort of soliloquising accompaniment to the pressing duties
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  Speaker 4: of sustaining life, but it is none the less a
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  Speaker 4: pleasing song. There is a somewhat close resemblance to some
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  Speaker 4: phrases of the yellow warbler's song in the rendering of
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  Speaker 4: the chestnut's side, but a little attention and a discriminating
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  Speaker 4: ear will readily distinguish the difference, both in quality and
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 4: in quantity. The song is more often heard on the
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  Speaker 4: college campus here than in the word woods, and there
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 4: it sounds something like we chi wee chee wee che
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  Speaker 4: e e, with the accent on the first syllable of
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  Speaker 4: each phrase. This, in common with other warbler songs, cannot
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  Speaker 4: be well represented by a whistle, but rather by hissing
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 4: or whispering the syllables between the closed teeth. The pitch
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 4: is too high for my whistle. In the woods, a
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 4: common form of the song is t t t t
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 4: we chew, and occasionally tue tue tue t we t ee.
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  Speaker 4: In the woods, the song seems to be far more
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 4: spirited than in the village, as well as being different,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 4: this difference may be rather due to the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the first migrants are those that visit the village, while
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  Speaker 4: the later ones are found in the woods. It is
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 4: well known that with many of the warblers, the first singers,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 4: or at least the first songs heard, are often different
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  Speaker 4: from the later ones. In the vicinity of Oberlin, Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: this little warbler makes his appearance about the fifth of
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  Speaker 4: May and does not leave for the north until the
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  Speaker 4: last week of May. It cannot be called common at
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 4: any time, some years not being seen at all, but
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 4: may usually be found in the shrubbery fringing woods or
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: in the shade trees in the village. None have been
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 4: found during the summer months, and it is doubtful of
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 4: any remain to nest. The winter is spent in the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 4: Bahamas and Mexico, and from there southward. The species ranges
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  Speaker 4: north to Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland and west to the plains.
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  Speaker 4: Being a bird of eastern North America, it breeds from
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 4: New Jersey and Illinois northward. I once found it breeding
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 4: in central Iowa. The nest resembles that of the yellow warbler,
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 4: both in situation and composition. It is usually placed in
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 4: the fork of a bush or shrub from two to
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 4: eight or nine feet from the ground, made of the
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 4: fibrous bark of the milkweed or some other hempen material,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 4: grass and sometimes leaves line with some sort of plant
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 4: down and long hairs. The bark fibers are wound about
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 4: the bush twigs, securely lashing the nest into the crotch.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 4: The four or five eggs are of a creamy white color,
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 4: with a wreath of reddish and dark brown spots and
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 4: dots around the larger end, the spots becoming smaller and
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 4: less numerous both ways from this wreath. They average about
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 4: point sixty six by point five to zero of an inch.
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  Speaker 4: In the fall, they are among the first warblers to appear,
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  Speaker 4: often being seen early in August and continuing in the
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  Speaker 4: region for several weeks. At this time of year, their
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  Speaker 4: bright colors are wanting, but they are the same birds
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  Speaker 4: for all that, and may be readily recognized by their
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  Speaker 4: trim form and animated carriage. End of section twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 8: Section T twenty three of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 8: number one, June eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 8: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 8: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 8: by Jill Ingall Nature Study How a naturalist is trained.
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  Speaker 8: Some views of John Burroughs. The knowledge of nature that
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 8: comes easy, that comes through familiarity with her, as through fishing, hunting, nutting, walking, farming.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 8: That is the kind that reaches and affects the character
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 8: and becomes a grown part of us. We absorb this
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 8: as we absorb the air, and it gets into our blood.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 8: Fresh vital knowledge is one thing. The desiccated fact is another.
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  Speaker 8: Do we know the wild flower when we have analyzed
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 8: it and pressed it or made a drawing of it?
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  Speaker 8: Of course, this is one kind of nune and is
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 8: suited to certain minds. But if we cannot supplement it
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 8: with the other kind, the knowledge that comes through the
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 8: heart and the emotions, we are poor. Indeed, I recently
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  Speaker 8: had a letter from the principle of a New England
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 8: high school putting some questions to me, touching these very matters.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 8: Do children love nature? How shall we instill this love
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 8: into them? How and when did I myself acquire my
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 8: love for her, et cetera. In reply, I said, the child,
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 8: in my opinion, does not consciously love nature. It is
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 8: curious about things, about everything. Its instincts lead it forth
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 8: into the fields and woods. It browses around, It gathers flowers.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 8: They are pretty. It stores up impressions. Boys go forth
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 8: into nature more as savages. They are predaceous, seeking whom
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 8: they made of our. They gather roots, nuts, wild fruit berries, eggs,
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 8: et cetera. At least this was my case. I hunted,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 8: I fished, I browsed, I wandered with a vague longing
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 8: in the woods. I trapped. I went cooning at night.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 8: I made ponds in the little streams. I boiled sap
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 8: in the maple woods. In spring, I went to sleep
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 8: under the trees. In summer, I caught birds on their nests.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 8: I watched for the little frogs in the marshes, et cetera.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 8: One keen pleasure which I remember was to take off
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 8: my shoes and stockings when the roads got dry in
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 8: late April or early May, and run up and down
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 8: the road until I was tired, usually in the warm twilight.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 8: I was not conscious of any love for nature as
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 8: such till my mind was brought in contact with literature.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 8: Then I discovered that I too loved nature, and had
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 8: a whole world of impressions stored up in my subconscious
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 8: self upon which to draw. I found I knew about
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 8: the birds, the animals, the seasons, the trees, the flowers,
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 8: and that these things have become almost a grown part
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 8: of me. I have been drawing upon the reservoir of
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 8: youthful impressions ever since. If nature is to be a
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 8: resource in a man's life, one's relation to her must
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 8: not be too exact and formal, but more that of
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 8: a lover and friend. I should not try directly to
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 8: teach young people to love nature so much as I
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 8: should aim to bring nature and them together and let
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 8: an understanding and intimacy spring up between them. The Outlook
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  Speaker 8: end of section twenty.
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  Speaker 7: Three Section twenty four of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, one,
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  Speaker 7: June eighteen ninety nine. 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. Tavarish John's
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 7: Hawk Emma jan Old Ross. John came home one evening
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 7: from a ramble in the country with a peach box
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 7: under his arm. He set the box very carefully on
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 7: the back porch, and then sat down himself on the
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 7: top of the box. His mother was watering some germiums
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  Speaker 7: in a bed near by, and paused in her work
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  Speaker 7: to look.
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  Speaker 1: At the lad.
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  Speaker 7: Where did you get those peaches, John, she asked, coming
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  Speaker 7: toward him with a pleasant smile. John gave a low laugh.
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  Speaker 7: This is a peach box, mother, he said. But if
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  Speaker 7: what is in it is a peach, it belongs to
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  Speaker 7: a new variety. I think. Look at him, he is
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  Speaker 7: a beauty, John Bonham, I hope you have not brought
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  Speaker 7: another pet to this house. Where in the world are
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 7: we to stow away all these creatures? On one little
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 7: town lot. There is your crown hog, your owl, the crow,
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  Speaker 7: the coat, the tub of fish, the big dog, the
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  Speaker 7: little dog, and three Christopher Columbus cats. Now, mother, please stop.
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  Speaker 7: Poor Chark stairs bows of the time in his hall
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  Speaker 7: under the corner of the house. And the owl keeps
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 7: the mice out of the cellar. And Jim Crow has
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 7: not stolen anything for a month except that half dollar
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 7: and your piece of lace and sister's red ribbon. You
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 7: said I might have the wash boiler to make a
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 7: swimming pool for the coat, and am going to feed
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  Speaker 7: the fish to him, so they will soon be gone
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 7: and you can have your tub again. I heard you
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  Speaker 7: tell Missus Bland that our dogs guarded the whole neighborhood
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  Speaker 7: from burglars and by Christopher Columbus. Cats are cute enough
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  Speaker 7: for any one to be glad to have them. Missus
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  Speaker 7: Goodall says she wants one of them real bad. You see, mother,
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  Speaker 7: said John persuasively. This fellow was such a beauty. I
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  Speaker 7: just had to bring him home. Jake Simmons shot him
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  Speaker 7: through the wing as he was carrying off a dove.
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  Speaker 7: He was going to wring the hawk's head off, but
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  Speaker 7: I told him I would give him ten cents for it,
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  Speaker 7: for I wanted to try an experiment with the bird.
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  Speaker 7: I know I can tame him and make a pet
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  Speaker 7: of him. See he can move around even if his
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  Speaker 7: wing is broken. John's mother looked through the bars of
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  Speaker 7: the peach crate and saw a full grown hawk with
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  Speaker 7: a beautiful brown head, eyes with blood red rims, a
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  Speaker 7: strong hooked beak, and long talons which he struck angrily
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 7: into the stick. John thrust at him through the bars.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 7: I never saw a more fierce, cruel looking bird, she said.
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  Speaker 7: See him tear at that stick. He will be teering
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  Speaker 7: you next. I shall give him no chance to tear me, mother,
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  Speaker 7: for I intend to tame him. You might as well
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  Speaker 7: try to tame a tiger. Well, I am going to
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  Speaker 7: try taming him, said John, in a low, determined tone.
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  Speaker 7: When his mother heard him speak in that way, she
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  Speaker 7: knew his mind was made up to succeed, and he
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  Speaker 7: had never yet failed in taming any of his pets.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 7: John put the hawk in his doghouse, the front of
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  Speaker 7: which was formed of strong iron bars, and the next
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  Speaker 7: day his mother saw him sitting before this improvised bird cage,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 7: going through some fantastic motions with his hands, and gently
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 7: chirping to the bird. Now accident happened to the young
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 7: naturalist in his care of the hawk, and gradually his
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  Speaker 7: mother ceased to think of it. One afternoon, about three
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  Speaker 7: weeks after this, the family were seated on the piazza
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 7: when they were startled at seeing John come around the
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  Speaker 7: corner of the house bearing the hawk on his wrist.
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  Speaker 7: Over the bird's head was drawn a gay colored hood
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 7: adorned with tiny bells and tassels. John had read how
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 7: hawks were dressed in medieval times, and had made the
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  Speaker 7: hood himself. A long string was tied to one of
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 7: the hawk's legs, and setting the bird down gently, the
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  Speaker 7: boy tied the string to a small tree. All were
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 7: watching him to see what he would do next, and
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 7: all kept silence as he lifted a warning hand and
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 7: uttered a low hush. He then removed the hood from
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 7: the bird's head, when it immediately began tearing at the strings,
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 7: snapping viciously at objects near it, and running to and
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 7: fro in an excited and angry manner. John seated himself
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 7: on the ground before the bird and began clucking to
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 7: it softly, with the index finger of his right hand
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 7: extended and pointing straight at the bird's eyes. Then he
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 7: turned quietly in whichever direction the bird moved, slowly, waving
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 7: his hand round and round in a circle, and never
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 7: taking his eyes off the bird's eyes. Gradually, the hawk
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 7: ceased to run about, then stood still, gazing steadily, as
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  Speaker 7: though fascinated at John's finger. It would shut its eyes slowly,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 7: then open them suddenly, only to shut them again more
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 7: slowly than before. At first, the bird stood perfectly erect.
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 7: Then its head began gradually falling over on its shoulder,
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 7: and without any warning, it tumbled backwards, its eyes shut,
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 7: its legs sticking straight up in the air, its body
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 7: perfectly rigid. John continued for a time to wave his
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 7: hand in a circle with the index finger extended. Then
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 7: he walked over to the porch, leaving the hawk on
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 7: the ground, where he lay for nearly thirty minutes when
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 7: he gradually returned to consciousness. A number of persons walking
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 7: by had stopped in the street to look at John
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 7: and the bird, and now exclamations of surprise were heard
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 7: as they saw the actions of the hawk. What did
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 7: you do to that bird? Asked the gentleman of John.
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  Speaker 7: I never in my life witnessed so strange a performance.
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  Speaker 7: I call that hypnotism, said the lad I have been
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 7: working with him every day since I brought him home,
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 7: and for a week I have never failed to bring
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 7: him under my influence and put him to sleep. In
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 7: this way. If I go to the cage to feed him,
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 7: he flies at me in a great rage at first,
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 7: but if I pass my finger in a circle before
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 7: him several times, he becomes quiet and will take a
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  Speaker 7: mouse from my hand without biting or tearing me with
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  Speaker 7: his talons. Sometimes I partly hypnotize him and lay the
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 7: mouse at his feet, and although he may be very hungry,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 7: he will not touch the food until I let him
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 7: out from under the influence of my finger. When he
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  Speaker 7: is over being hypnotized, he is as fierce as he
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 7: was when I brought him home, and I do not
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 7: believe he can ever be made tame like other birds.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 7: Perhaps if I had captured him when he was young,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 7: with the down still on him, I could have tamed him,
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 7: But now he is too old and fierce. Well, my lad,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 7: said one of the men, laughing, if he is not tamed,
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 7: you have him pretty well under your thumb and fingeringer.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 7: At least. John's wonderful hypnotic influence over the hawk was
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 7: soon known throughout the town, and crowds of people often
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  Speaker 7: gathered to see him go through his truly wonderful feet
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 7: of hypnotizing the fierce hawk. The hawk belongs to the
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 7: family of the falcony Day, which is so called from
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 7: the Latin word falcis, meaning a scythe the talons of
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 7: the falcon day being curved in the form of a
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 7: scythe thus giving the name to the species. The wings
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 7: of the hawk are so short they do not extend
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 7: to the tip of the tail, for which reason it
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 7: is called an ignoble bird of prey, to distinguish it
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 7: from the true falcon, the wings of which extend to
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 7: the tip of the tail, and which is called a
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 7: noble bird of prey. The hawk's bill is short, curved
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 7: from the bays, often terminating in a sharp point called
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 7: a tooth. They have rather short, exceedingly strong legs and long,
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 7: incurved talons with which they tear their prey. The species
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 7: are numerous and widely distributed over the world. The goss
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 7: hawk and the sparrow hawk are the best known and
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 7: most important. The hawk is a diurnal bird of prey,
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 7: which means that it hunts in the daytime. It flies
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 7: with exceeding swiftness, having been known to travel a distance
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 7: of one thousand, three hundred fifty miles in twenty four hours.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 7: The hawk has very acute vision, hence the expression keen eyed.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 7: As a hawk its saws to a great height, always
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 7: endeavoring to get above the bird it is pursuing in
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 7: order to swoop down upon it from above, its saws
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 7: in a series of arcs, and against the wind, which
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 7: helps it to rise as it does a kite. The
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 7: hawk does not attack its prey with its beak, as
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 7: is generally supposed, but with its talons. After securing its
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 7: prey by swooping on it and fastening its claws in
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 7: its victim, it gently descends to the ground. The young
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 7: hawk yet in the nest, is called an ais wan.
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 7: Then an hop is a brancher, and a young hawk
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 7: able to catch game is called a saw hawk. Young
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 7: hawks taken in flying are called passage hawks, and the
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 7: training of these is called reclaiming. Hawking was for many
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 7: years a sport followed by kings and the nobility in Europe.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 7: It is of very ancient origin, having been followed in
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 7: Asia and Europe before the time of the Christian era.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 7: The hawk builds its nest in the forks, over a
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  Speaker 7: tree or on some inaccessible cliff. The female is larger
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 7: than the male and lays two or three eggs. End
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  Speaker 7: of Section twenty four.
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  Speaker 13: Section twenty five of Birds and All Nature, Volume Sex,
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  Speaker 13: number one, June eighteen ninety nine, Recorded for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 13: Org by Emmy greymore curious trees. One in Malabar, a
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  Speaker 13: tree called the tallow tree grows. From the seeds of it,
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 13: when boiled, is procured a firm tallow which makes excellent candles. Two.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 13: The butter tree was discovered by park in the central
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 13: part of Africa. From its kernel is produced a nice
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 13: butter which will keep a year. Three. The pallodevaka or cowtree,
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 13: grows on rocks in Venezuela, South America. It has dry
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 13: and leathery leaves, and from incisions made in its trunk,
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  Speaker 13: a kind of milk oozes out, which is tolerably thick
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 13: and of an agreeable balmy smell. At sunrise, the natives
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 13: may be seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 13: bowls to receive the milk. Four. A tree of Madagascar
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 13: called the traveler's tree yields a copious supply of fresh
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 13: water from its leaves, very grateful to the traveler. It
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 13: grows in the most arid countries and is another proof
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 13: of the tender care of our heavenly Father in supplying
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 13: all his creature's wants. Even in the driest weather. A
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 13: quart of water can be obtained by piercing a hole
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 13: at the bottom of the leaf stalk, and the liquid
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 13: is pure and pleasant to the taste. The leaves are
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 13: of enormous size, varying from ten to fifteen feet in length. Five.
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  Speaker 13: The date tree is a species of palm, and almost
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 13: every part of it is valuable. Its fruit is delicious,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 13: and it is also esteemed for the palm wine drawn
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 13: from its trunk. Its leaves are made into hats, baskets, vans,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 13: and many other articles, and the fibers of the leaf
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 13: stems are made into cord and twine. A department store
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 13: might almost be furnished from this tree.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: Six.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 13: The sorrowful tree is found on the island of Goa,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 13: near Bombay. It is so called because it flourishes in
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 13: the night. At sunset, no flowers are to be seen,
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 13: but soon after it is covered with them, they close
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 13: up or drop off as the sun rises. It has
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 13: a fragrant odor and blossoms at night the year round.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 13: Seven there is a tree in Jamaica called the life tree,
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 13: whose leaves grow even when severed from the plant. It
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 13: is impossible to kill it, save by fire. Normal instructor
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  Speaker 13: end of section twenty five. This recording is in the public.
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 4: Domain, Section twenty six of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 4: number one, June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox by
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  Speaker 4: Betty B. The black throated blue warbler Dendroica coruleescence Lyn's Jones,
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 4: the bird lover has many red letter days in his calendar,
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 4: particularly when the birds are moving northward. The earliest arrivals,
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 4: while snow still covers the ground, give their own peculiar
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 4: thrill of delight and waken in him new energy and
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 4: great anticipations for the coming season of birds study. But
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 4: these early arrivals soon become a part of the landscape
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 4: and cease to lend any peculiar delight. Not so with
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 4: the host of warblers, for they are here one day
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 4: and may be up and away the next, to be
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 4: seen again for two or three months, or even a year.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 4: One must be on the alert during warbler time if
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 4: he expects to catch a glimpse of the passing host.
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 4: But there are distinctively warbler days during this warbler time.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 4: These vary in different years with the weather and the
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 4: advance of vegetation. From late April to the second or
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 4: even third week of May in northern Ohio and central Iowa,
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 4: and proportionately later or earlier north or south of that latitude.
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 4: The subject of our sketch is not among the early
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 4: migrating warblers, nor yet among the later ones. He usually
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 4: travels with the second large flight, and may then be
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 4: expected late in April or early in May. The earliest Oberlin,
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 4: Ohio record falls on April twenty seventh, eighteen ninety six,
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 4: and the latest on May tenth, eighteen ninety seven. Whether
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 4: the birds are five early or late, they usually remain
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 4: in the vicinity two weeks, the males being present during
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 4: the first week and the females during the second. I
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 4: have never found the two sexes present on the same date.
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 4: The species cannot be said to be common even during
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 4: the height of the spring migration, nor yet are they rare.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 4: Few were seen during the fall migration at Oberlin, and
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 4: they during the last week of September and the first
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 4: week of October. Further west in the Mississippi Valley, the
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 4: fall migrants seem greatly to outnumber those of spring. This
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 4: is not a tree top inhabiting species, but seems to
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 4: prefer the middle branches of the trees or the tops
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 4: of shrubbery, often descending to the ground and gleaning there,
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 4: much after the fashion of the Maryland yellow throat. In
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 4: the higher woods, free from underbrush, he seems to prefer
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 4: ground gleaning. But where low underbrush of forwards a place
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 4: for low gleaning, he is seldom seen on the ground
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 4: in village parks. He is fond of a much higher perch,
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 4: and must be looked for there, well up in the trees,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 4: even to the topmost branches, where he gleans among the
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 4: bursting buds and new leaves. On the Oberlin College campus
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 4: he is a regular spring visitor in early May, and
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 4: here seems to appreciate his environment and rare opportunities, for
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 4: he sings his best to the accompaniment of the medley
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 4: of pianos in the Conservatory of Music across the way,
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 4: and the deeper tones of the great pipe organ in
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 4: the Chapel hard By. Here I have heard him singing
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 4: at all hours of the day, while in the woods
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 4: his song is less often given. One is at a
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 4: loss to assign a reason for the decided preference for
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 4: the college campus, which is in the center of the
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 4: village activities. Rumbling wagons and tramping feet lost the birds
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 4: not the slightest alarm, but swiftly moving bicycles act upon
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 4: the bird's nervous system, much as upon that of an
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 4: elderly woman. The song of this warbler is variously rendered
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 4: by the various writers upon bird songs. None of these
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 4: renderings seems to describe the song as I hear it
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 4: on the college campus. It is singing as I write
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 4: to U U e e e e. A variation sounds
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 4: choo chou chu wu e e, sometimes choo choo wo
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 4: chi wu chuo chi wo e e e e. There
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 4: is also often a single phrase which sounds more like
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 4: a scolding note than a song. It is tu twuh
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 4: tuh tah twee.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 9: E e e e e, or even z z e
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 9: e e e.
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 4: Really, it may sound simply zizzzz. The song is uttered
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 4: in a spirited manner while the bird is feeding and
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 4: flitting about in the foliage. It interfering with the feeding
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 4: only as a sort of afterthought, causing a momentary pause
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 4: as the bird raises his head and straightens his body
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 4: for the effort. It is one of the warbler songs
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 4: that are easily recognized and not readily forgotten, were it
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 4: not for the white spot or patch on the wing
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 4: of both male and female. At all seasons of the
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 4: year and in all plumages, this warbler would easily escape
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 4: the notice of all but the alert ornithologist. His black
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 4: throat and breast, white belly and blue back, and wings
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 4: and tail are not conspicuous in the trees and foliage.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 4: The black throated blue warbler spends the winter months in
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 4: Guatemala and the West Indies and migrates north to Labrador
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 4: and Hudson's Bay, nesting there and in the northern parts
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 4: of the United States. It ranges west to the border
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 4: of the plains. The nest is placed in low shrubs
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 4: or bushes from a few inches to two feet above
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 4: the ground, and is composed of dry, fibrous bark, twigs
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 4: and roots, lined with black rootlets and hair. The outside
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 4: is often more or less covered with cocoons. The thick
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 4: swampy woods with an undergrowth seems to be the favorite
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 4: resort for the nesting birds. The four eggs are buffy
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 4: white to greenish white, rather heavily blotched with varying shades
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 4: of brown. They average about point sixty nine by point
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 4: five zero of an inch end of section twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section twenty seven of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 5: number one, June eighteen ninety nine, recorded for Libribox by
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  Speaker 5: Tod The Emperor's birds Nest. Once the Emperor Charles of Spain,
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  Speaker 5: with his swarthy grave commanders, I forget in what campaign
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  Speaker 5: long besieged in mud and rain some old frontier town
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  Speaker 5: of Flanders, up and down the dreary camp, in great
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  Speaker 5: boots of Spanish leather, striding with a measured tramp. These hidalgos,
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  Speaker 5: dull and damp cursed the Frenchman, cursed the weather. Thus,
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  Speaker 5: as to and fro they went over upland and through hollow,
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  Speaker 5: giving their impatience vent Perched upon the Emperor's tent in
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  Speaker 5: her nest, they spied a swallow. Yes, it was a
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  Speaker 5: swallow's nest, built of clay and hair of horses Maine
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  Speaker 5: or tail or dragoon's crest found on hedgerows east and west.
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  Speaker 5: After skirmish of the forces, then an old Hidago said,
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  Speaker 5: as he twirled his gray mustachio, sure to swallow overhead.
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  Speaker 5: Thinks the Emperor's tent a shed, and the Emperor but
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  Speaker 5: a macho, hearing his imperial name coupled with those words
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  Speaker 5: of malice, half in anger, half in shame. Forth, the
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  Speaker 5: great campaigner came slowly from his canvas palace. Let no
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  Speaker 5: hand the bird molest, said he solemnly nor hurt her,
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  Speaker 5: adding then, by way of jest, Galandrina is my guest,
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  Speaker 5: tis the wife of some deserter. Swift as bowstring speeds
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  Speaker 5: a shaft through the campla spread the rumor, and the soldiers,
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  Speaker 5: as they quaffed Flemish beer at dinner, laughed at the
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  Speaker 5: Emperor's pleasant humor. So, unharmed and unafraid, sat the swallow
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  Speaker 5: still and brooded till the constant cannonade through the walls
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  Speaker 5: a breach had made, and the siege was thus concluded.
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  Speaker 5: Then the army elsewhere bent, struck its tents as if disbanding,
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  Speaker 5: only not the Emperor's tent or reordered ere he went
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  Speaker 5: very curtly leave it standing. So it stood there all alone,
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  Speaker 5: loosely flapping, torn and tattered, till the brood was fledged
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  Speaker 5: and flown, singing o'er those walls of stone which the
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  Speaker 5: cannon shot had shattered, Longfellow end of Section twenty seven.
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  Speaker 5: This recording is in the public domain. End of Birds
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  Speaker 5: and All Nature, Volume six, number one, June eighteen ninety nine.