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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899-Various · For the Birds

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Birds and All Nature, volume six, No. Four,
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  Speaker 1: November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 1: Betty B. A rare humming bird, How one of these
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  Speaker 1: little fairy creatures was tamed p w h. Instances are
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  Speaker 1: very rare where birds are familiar with human beings, and
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  Speaker 1: the humming birds especially are considered unapproachable. Yet a naturalist
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  Speaker 1: tells how he succeeded in catching one in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Several cases are on record of attempts to tame humming birds,
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  Speaker 1: but when placed in a cage, they do not thrive
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  Speaker 1: and soon die. The orange groves of southern California abound
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  Speaker 1: in these attractive creatures, and several can often be seen
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  Speaker 1: about the flowering bushes, seeking food or chasing each other
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  Speaker 1: in play. Once, when living on the slopes of the
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  Speaker 1: Sierra Madre Mountains, where they were very plentiful, I accomplished
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  Speaker 1: the feet of taking one in my hand, says the naturalist.
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  Speaker 1: I first noticed it in the garden, resting on a
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  Speaker 1: mustard stalk, and thinking to see how near I could approach,
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  Speaker 1: I gradually moved toward it by pretending to be otherwise engaged,
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  Speaker 1: until I was within five feet of it. The bird
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  Speaker 1: looked at me calmly, and I moved slowly nearer, whistling
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  Speaker 1: gently to attract its attention. As I began to think
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  Speaker 1: something was the matter with it, it bent its head
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  Speaker 1: upon one side, eyed me sharply, and flew to another
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  Speaker 1: stalk a few feet away, contemplating me as before. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I approached, taking care not to alarm it, and this
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  Speaker 1: time I was almost within reaching distance before it flew away.
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  Speaker 1: The bird seemed to have a growing confidence in me,
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  Speaker 1: and I became more and more deliberate in my movements,
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  Speaker 1: until I finally stood beside it, the little creature gazing
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  Speaker 1: at me with its head tipped upon one side, as
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  Speaker 1: if questioning what I was about. I then withdrew and
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  Speaker 1: approached again, repeating this several times before I stretched out
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  Speaker 1: my hand to take it, at which it flew to
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  Speaker 1: another bush. But the next time it allowed me to
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  Speaker 1: grasp it, and I had caught a wild bird open handed,
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  Speaker 1: without even the use of salt. One of the curious
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  Speaker 1: features of humming birds is that they are never found
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  Speaker 1: in Europe, being exclusively American, ranging in this country from
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  Speaker 1: the extreme north to the tropics. Adding to the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of field and grove, being veritable living gems. Nothing can
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  Speaker 1: approach the humming bird in its gorgeousness of decoration. It
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  Speaker 1: is especially rich in the metallic tints, seemingly splashed with red, blue, green,
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  Speaker 1: and other bronzes. Some appeared to be decked in a
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  Speaker 1: coat of mail, others blazing in the sunlight with head
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  Speaker 1: dresses and breastplates that are dazzling to behold and defy description.
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  Speaker 1: The smallest of birds, they are one of the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful of the many ornaments of our fields and gardens.
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  Speaker 1: In some islands of the South Pacific, birds had been
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  Speaker 1: found that had never seen a man before, and allowed
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  Speaker 1: themselves to be picked up, and even had to be
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  Speaker 1: pushed out of people's way. It is said, yet they
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  Speaker 1: must have been very unlike the birds that are generally known,
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  Speaker 1: or they would have been more timid, even if they
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  Speaker 1: had not learned the fear of man. End of Section one.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain Section two of
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  Speaker 1: Birds and All Nature, Volume six, No. Four, November eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Betty B.
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  Speaker 1: The Ladies Slipper, William Kerr Higley, Secretary of the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Academy of Sciences. This interesting plant belongs to that remarkable
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  Speaker 1: family of orchids Orkadasi, which includes over four hundred genera
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  Speaker 1: and five thousand species. They are especially noted for the
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  Speaker 1: great variety of shapes and colors of their flowers, many
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  Speaker 1: of them resembling beetles and other insects, monkey, snake and
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  Speaker 1: lizard heads, as well as helmets and slippers, the latter
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  Speaker 1: giving rise to the name of the plant in our illustration.
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  Speaker 1: The variety, singular beauty and delicate odor, as well as
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  Speaker 1: the peculiar arrangement of the parts of the flower, make
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  Speaker 1: many of the species of great financial value. This is
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  Speaker 1: also enhanced by the extreme care required in their cultivation,
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  Speaker 1: which must be accomplished in hot houses. For the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the more valuable forms are native only in the
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  Speaker 1: tropical forests. Many, too, are rarely found except as single
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  Speaker 1: individuals widely separated. There are many parasitic species, and in
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  Speaker 1: the tropics a larger number attached themselves by their long
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  Speaker 1: roots to trees, but do not obtain their nourishment from them,
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  Speaker 1: while those belonging to temperate regions usually grow on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: In the last sixty years, the cultivation of orchids has
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  Speaker 1: become a passion in Europe and to a great extent
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  Speaker 1: in America. It is said that Linnaeus in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the last century new but a dozen exotic orchids.
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  Speaker 1: To day, over three thousand are known to English and
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  Speaker 1: American horticulturalists. Though admired by all, the orchids are especially
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  Speaker 1: interesting to the scientists, for in their peculiar flowers is
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  Speaker 1: found an unusual arrangement to bring about cross fertilization so
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  Speaker 1: necessary to the best development of plant life. It is evident, also,
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  Speaker 1: as shown by doctor Charles Darwin, that this was not
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  Speaker 1: so in the earlier life of the family, but has
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  Speaker 1: been a gradual change through centuries by which the species
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  Speaker 1: have been better prepared to survive. No other family of
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  Speaker 1: plants presents as much evidence of the provision in nature
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  Speaker 1: for the protection of species and their continuance by propagation.
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  Speaker 1: Few of the orchids are of economic value to man.
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  Speaker 1: The most important ones, outside of a few used in medicine,
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  Speaker 1: are the vanillas, natives of tropical America and Africa. The
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  Speaker 1: lady's slipper belongs to the genus Cyprepedium, from two Greek
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  Speaker 1: words meaning venus and abuskin that is Venus's slipper. There
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  Speaker 1: are about forty species, found in both temperate and tropical countries.
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  Speaker 1: The one used for our illustration is the showy ladies slipper.
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  Speaker 1: Cyprepedium reggino or spectabilee and is a native of eastern
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  Speaker 1: North America, from Canada nearly to the Gulf of Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: It grows to a height of from one to three
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  Speaker 1: feet and is leafy to the top. It grows in
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  Speaker 1: swamps and wet woods, and in many localities where it
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  Speaker 1: is extensively gathered for ornamental purposes. It is being rapidly exterminated.
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  Speaker 1: Those living before the era of modern investigation knew little
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  Speaker 1: of the functions of the various parts of flowers. We
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  Speaker 1: find an excellent illustration of this ignorance in the following
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  Speaker 1: peculiar account of a South American Lady Slipper, written by
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  Speaker 1: doctor Erasmus Darwin, father of doctor Charles Darwin, in the
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  Speaker 1: latter part of the last century. In his notes on
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  Speaker 1: his poem The Economy of Vegetation, he says it has
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  Speaker 1: a large globular nectary of a fleshy color, and an
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  Speaker 1: incision or depression much resembling the body of the large
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  Speaker 1: American spider, attached to divergent, slender petals, not unlike the
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  Speaker 1: legs of the same spider. He says that Linnaeus claims
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  Speaker 1: this spider catches small birds as well as insects, and
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  Speaker 1: adds the similitude of this flower to this great spider
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a vegetable contrivance to prevent the humming
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  Speaker 1: bird from plundering its honey end of section two. This
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section three of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 2: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 2: and I by Eleanora Kinsley Marble. Wouldn't the little readers
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  Speaker 2: of Birds and All Nature enjoy a talk with a
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  Speaker 2: mother bird? The father bird, it seems to me, has
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  Speaker 2: done all the talking hitherto because he's handsome and can sing.
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  Speaker 2: As no reason why Jim my mate should write up
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  Speaker 2: the history of his family. It would have been a
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  Speaker 2: sorry attempt had he tried, I promise you, for though
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  Speaker 2: he is a Heart's Mountain canary, pure yellow and white
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  Speaker 2: like the lower bird in the picture. He is not
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  Speaker 2: at all clever, My mistress says, I have more sense
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  Speaker 2: in one of my little toes than Jim has in
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  Speaker 2: his whole body. You cute little thing, she exclaims, when
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  Speaker 2: I kiss her or take a hemp seed from off
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  Speaker 2: her finger. You are the dearest and wisest little bird
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Jim sometimes taunts me because I wear
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  Speaker 2: such sober colors, black and brown with green and yellow mixed,
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  Speaker 2: like the upper bird in the picture. But I retort
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  Speaker 2: that I am a Heart's Mountain bird also, and have
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  Speaker 2: just as good German blood in my veins as he has.
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  Speaker 2: Neither of us ever saw the Heart's Mountains, of course,
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  Speaker 2: for we were born in Chicago, but our great grandmothers did.
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  Speaker 2: I am sure a good husband. No, I can't say
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  Speaker 2: that Jim is. He's too quarrelsome, my mistress says. He's
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  Speaker 2: a bully, whatever that may mean. He has a fashion
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  Speaker 2: of standing by the seed cup and daring me to
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  Speaker 2: come and pick up a seed. The same with the
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  Speaker 2: drinking water and the bathing dish. Then again, he is
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  Speaker 2: very gracious and calls me pet names, and sings at
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  Speaker 2: the top of his voice every love song he knows.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I try to imitate him, when he flies into
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  Speaker 2: a rage and sharply bids me shut up. I am
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  Speaker 2: too meet to return the compliment, even when I have
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  Speaker 2: grown weary of his music. But my mistress shakes her
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  Speaker 2: finger at him and calls him a naughty, naughty bird.
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  Speaker 2: She can aunt tame Jim all she may do. Few
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  Speaker 2: canary birds will resist a hempseed when offered on a finger.
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  Speaker 2: My mistress used to crack them between her teeth and
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  Speaker 2: coax and coax him to take one, but he never would.
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  Speaker 2: That's the reason she calls him stupid. For we love
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  Speaker 2: hempseed just as you little folks love peanuts.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way she tamed me, And that's the way
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  Speaker 2: you can tame your canary if you have one. I
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  Speaker 2: have had a rather eventful history for a bird in
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  Speaker 2: the first place. But let me begin at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: and tell you the circumstance, just as it happened. It
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  Speaker 2: was about four years ago, so far as I can recollect,
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  Speaker 2: that I caught my first glimpse of the world and
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  Speaker 2: tasted the sweets of freedom. One balmy morning in June,
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  Speaker 2: I escaped from my cage, and the window being opened out,
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  Speaker 2: I joyously flew into the bright sunshine. I was a
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  Speaker 2: little dazzled at first, and frightened. How immense the world seemed,
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  Speaker 2: how far away the tender blue sky over which the
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  Speaker 2: fleecy clouds sailed, that sky which I had thought a
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  Speaker 2: mere patch when seen from my cage in the window,
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  Speaker 2: How many houses there were, and inviting the green trees
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  Speaker 2: and grass plots. I fairly danced with joy and chirruped,
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  Speaker 2: I'm free, I'm free. As I flew from place to place,
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  Speaker 2: my wings never tiring, bearing me from tree to housetop,
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  Speaker 2: and from housetop to tree. Ah, that was a day
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  Speaker 2: never to be forgotten. How I escaped. The dangers which
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  Speaker 2: lurk about the steps of the unwary and innocent has
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  Speaker 2: always been a marvel to me. The hostile sparrows, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: the green eyed, sharp clawed cat, the slingshot of the
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  Speaker 2: cruel boy, the but why linger over horrors which might
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  Speaker 2: but did not happen? On this way the morning passed joyfully.
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  Speaker 2: The pangs of hunger as noon approached, however, advised me sharply.
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  Speaker 2: It was near dinner time. From house top to housetop,
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  Speaker 2: I flew from tree to tree. But nowhere could I
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  Speaker 2: find a little china cup filled with rape, hemp and
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  Speaker 2: canary seed, or a tiny glass vessel filled with water
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  Speaker 2: that I might slake my thirst? What should I do?
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  Speaker 2: A bird brought up as I had been, I reflected,
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  Speaker 2: could never descend to work for a living as the
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  Speaker 2: sparrows did. And other wild animals which I had met
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  Speaker 2: among the trees, some of them ate insects, fact, I
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  Speaker 2: assure you. And one red headed bird, wearing a coat
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  Speaker 2: of many gray colors, simply tapped and tapped on a
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  Speaker 2: tree with his hard bill whenever he wanted his dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, said the bug innocently, who was making his
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  Speaker 2: home between the bark and the tree. Come in. Nobody appeared.
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  Speaker 2: The bug ventured out to see who his.
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  Speaker 3: Collar might be.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, grinned the woodpecker, and then politely gobbled the
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  Speaker 2: board bug up. But I was not brought up that way.
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  Speaker 2: I could not eat bugs. Neither could I rummage in
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  Speaker 2: the garbage boxes as the sparrows did. Oh how unwise
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  Speaker 2: of me, and how ungrateful to run away from a
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  Speaker 2: home where my every need was faithfully served by a
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  Speaker 2: kind mistress. Like the prodigal, I would return. Surely I
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  Speaker 2: would know the house, the very window from which I
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  Speaker 2: had fled. Yes, I would start at once, and off
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  Speaker 2: I flew in the direction which I thought I had come.
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  Speaker 2: But alas, how alike, all the houses in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: seemed vainly. Did I fly down on many a window
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  Speaker 2: sill and peer in. No mistress's face greeted me, no
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  Speaker 2: empty cage swung idly between the curtains. At last, faint
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  Speaker 2: from hunger and fatigue, I flew down and perched upon
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  Speaker 2: the railing of a porch where the two ladies were sitting. You,
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  Speaker 2: dear little thing, said one of the ladies. I want
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  Speaker 2: to say here that I am much smaller than the
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  Speaker 2: dark Heart's mountain bird who sat for her picture. I
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  Speaker 2: never saw a sparrow so tiny or marked like you before.
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  Speaker 2: It's a canary, not a sparrow, said the other lady.
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  Speaker 2: Doubtless somebody lost a pet. And she held out her
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  Speaker 2: hand and chirruped and talked to me very much like
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  Speaker 2: my lost mistress had done. Poor little wanderer, she at
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  Speaker 2: length said, as I looked at her, but made no
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  Speaker 2: effort to fly away. I have an idea you came
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  Speaker 2: to us for food. And then she went in the
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  Speaker 2: house and shortly returned with a cage, in the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of which she scattered seed, placing upon the ground very
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  Speaker 2: close to me, rape, hemp and canary. I chirrup the
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  Speaker 2: seed I am used to and down at once I
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  Speaker 2: flew hopped into the cage, and the next moment it
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  Speaker 2: was made prisoner. Sorry, well, really, I don't know. My
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  Speaker 2: period of freedom had been so brief and attended with
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  Speaker 2: such anxiety and fear that I hardly knew whether to
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  Speaker 2: laugh or cry. The next day, however, I knew that
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  Speaker 2: my lines had indeed fallen in pleasant places. My first
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  Speaker 2: mistress had been kind, but oh how much more tender
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  Speaker 2: and thoughtful than new ones proved to be. I was
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  Speaker 2: a helpless little creature, she said, and upon her depended
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  Speaker 2: my entire comfort and happiness. Never for one day did
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  Speaker 2: she neglect me. Though my regular bill of fare was
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  Speaker 2: spurred seed, Yet she varied it as she did her own,
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  Speaker 2: cracker lettuce, apples, grapes, cherries, sugar, and always in the summer, peppergrass.
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  Speaker 2: If you little folks have a canary. Never fail. I
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  Speaker 2: beseech you give them the latter all they want to eat.
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  Speaker 2: It costs nothing, and may be gathered in any vacant lot,
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  Speaker 2: fresh every day. What pleasure so kind a mistress could
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  Speaker 2: find in keeping me in a little gilt cage? I
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  Speaker 2: could not see, for there were screens in the window,
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  Speaker 2: And even if there had not been, I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: I should have cared to fly away. Something in my
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  Speaker 2: appearance one day suggested the thought to her. I am sure,
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  Speaker 2: for looking at me earnestly, she said, you're not happy,
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  Speaker 2: my Bertie. I fear neither would I be cooped up
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  Speaker 2: in a cage like that, And so she opened wide
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  Speaker 2: the door and out I flew, never to be prisoner
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  Speaker 2: again till well. I will not speak of that just here,
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  Speaker 2: but keep it for the clothes. What famous times we
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  Speaker 2: did have after that? To be sure, whenever I felt
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  Speaker 2: lonesome down, I'd fly upon the desk where my mistress
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  Speaker 2: sat riding. She would pretend not to see me till
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  Speaker 2: I had hopped upon the very sheet over which her
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  Speaker 2: pen was gliding. Why, Bertie, She would then cry, as
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  Speaker 2: though very much astonished. And if I'd fly as she
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  Speaker 2: made a da me to the window, where I would
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  Speaker 2: hide behind the ruffle of the sash curtain. Keep jeep,
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  Speaker 2: I'd cry, just as you little folks cry, whoop when
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  Speaker 2: all is ready? Cheep jeep, Where can my birdie be?
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  Speaker 2: She would say, after a while, dropping her pin, where
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  Speaker 2: can she be? And then she would look here and
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  Speaker 2: there till presently approaching my hiding place. Out I'd fly
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  Speaker 2: with a gurgle into an adjoining room, where i'd again
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  Speaker 2: crouch behind the curtain between you and me. I believe
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  Speaker 2: she knew all the time where I was hiding, and
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  Speaker 2: only pretended to search for me here and there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it was capital fun, and I never tired of it, though,
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  Speaker 2: Mistress did, I can't play with you any more, She
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  Speaker 2: would say, you quite tire me out, and then she
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  Speaker 2: would go to riding again, and so our game of
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  Speaker 2: hide and seek would end for the day. Everything needs companionship,
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  Speaker 2: she said one morning to my master birds, children and men.
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  Speaker 2: And so that day he brought home a large wooden cage,
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  Speaker 2: in which was a handsome a canary bird as you
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  Speaker 2: would want to see. That was Jim, And oh how
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  Speaker 2: happy I was when a few days after he asked
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  Speaker 2: me to be his mate. I said yes, almost before
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  Speaker 2: he got the song out of his mouth. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what a tyrant and bully he was till afterward,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And so we went pretty soon to the
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  Speaker 2: housekeeping in the wooden cage. My mistress understood what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted when she saw me picking up the reds and
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  Speaker 2: pulling her chinell table cover to pieces, and so in
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  Speaker 2: one corner of the cage she put a nest made
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  Speaker 2: of wire and covered with bits of muslin. Near By
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  Speaker 2: were little heaps of cotton, batting, wrapping, cord and hair. Dear, dear,
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  Speaker 2: how busy I was for days. Jim, as I've said before,
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  Speaker 2: did nothing much but seeing and criticize. More than once,
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  Speaker 2: I dragged all the furniture out of our wire home,
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  Speaker 2: cause he thought I should have put the hair in first,
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  Speaker 2: and the cotton and strings. And afterwards, for a newly
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  Speaker 2: wedded couple on their honeymoon, so to speak, we did
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  Speaker 2: a vast amount of quarreling. The nest, however, was at
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  Speaker 2: last made cozy enough to suit us, and so one
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  Speaker 2: day I climbed in and sat for quite a while.
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  Speaker 2: Then I called to Jim, and I must say, he
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  Speaker 2: seemed to be just as proud as I was of
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  Speaker 2: the little blue speckled egg which lay there so snug
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  Speaker 2: in the cotton. The next nay but one, I laid another,
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  Speaker 2: and then every day till I had laid five. My
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  Speaker 2: how I felt when I gathered them up close under
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  Speaker 2: me and sat down to brood. If all went well
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  Speaker 2: after thirteen or fourteen days, we would have five dear
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  Speaker 2: bird links. For fear the eggs might get chilled, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: left them only a few minutes at a time, hurriedly
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  Speaker 2: eating a few seeds, then back on the nest again.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Jim could have helped me very much by brooding the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: eggs while I took exercise in my meals, but he
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: was too selfish for that. All he did was to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: fly about and sing, bidding me to keep up my spirits.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: If it hadn't been for my mistress, I should have
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: fared badly. You may believe she fed me crackers soaked
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: in milk cracked hemp seed, and placed them around the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: edge of the nest, besides other delicacies in vegetable line
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: too numerous to mention. When the birdlings were born, Jim
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: appeared to be very proud indeed, he couldn't sing long
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: or loud enough, leaving me to feed the five gaping,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: pleating red mouths every day. Ah. No one knows better
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  Speaker 2: than a mother how much trouble and worry there is
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: in bringing up a family. I'm sure I've had experience enough,
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  Speaker 2: for since that time, I've had so many birdlings I
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  Speaker 2: can't count them. One season I had eighteen three nests
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and six in the nest. Each time. They were considered
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  Speaker 2: such fine birds that my mistress had no difficulty in
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  Speaker 2: selling them as soon as they'd learned to sing. Now
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I'm coming to a period, the thought of which fills
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  Speaker 2: my heart with sorrow. For some reason that I am
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: not able to tell you, my mistress concluded to part
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  Speaker 2: with me and Jim. She shed tears over it, I know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: but nevertheless we felt ourselves being borne away one night,
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  Speaker 2: and in the morning low we found ourselves in a large,
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  Speaker 2: bare room, on the floor of which was painted in
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  Speaker 2: immense ring or circle. I was sitting on six blue
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  Speaker 2: speckled eggs at the time and didn't mind it so much.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: But Jim was very cross and restless, for the cage
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: door was fastened, and he bitterly resented imprisonment alas from
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: that time forth, we never were to no freedom again.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: From that time forth, we had to accustom ourselves to many,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: many changes. About nine o'clock the door of the room
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: opened and in came a little girl, followed by a
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: little boy, then more little girls and boys, till I counted,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: as well as I could, seventeen all one family. Oh no,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I am not talking about bird families. Now, as many
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: as could crowd about the cage and stared at me
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: with wide open eyes. The cage was on a low table,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: so they could peep into the nest. Oh how frightened
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I was. One little chap thrust his finger through the
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  Speaker 2: bars and down it flew, leaving my precious eggs exposed.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: That was what they wanted, and oh how they did exclaim.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I went back pretty soon, however, for I began to
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: understand that they did not mean to harm me or
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the eggs either. However, it was many days ere I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: got over the feeling of fright when stared at by
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: so many eyes. By the time the birdlings were hatched out,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I had grown quite used to it. Indeed, I felt
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: somewhat proud of the interest those we tots took in
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: my babies, my manner, feeding them, never failing to call
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: forth cries of wonder and praise. She just chews up
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the seeds and swallows em, said a little chap one day.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Then when the baby birds cry for something to eat,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: she brings it up and stuffs it down their long
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: throats with their bill. My, it's ever so much better
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: than a spoon, the teacher laughed and patted the little
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: fellow on the head. That is your first lesson in
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Nature's study, Victor said. She and then a lady at
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the piano struck up a march, and off they all trooped,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: two by two. Where do you suppose we are, crossly,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: said Jim, hopping excitedly from one perch to another. It
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: looks like a lunatic asylum to me. Jim, as I
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: have stated before, is a very stupid bird. The word
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: lesson and Nature's study held no meaning for him. It
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: seems to me, I said, watching the little tots marching
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: with an observing eye, that we are in a kindergarten.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: A kindergarten, echoed Jim. What's that why, I explained, a
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: school where young children are taught to love everything and everybody.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Surely we have nothing to fear. And so it turned
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: out to be a kindergarten in which I am proud
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to say, for purpose of nature study, I have raised
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  Speaker 2: many and many a brood. End of section three. This
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  Speaker 2: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section four of Birds in All Nature, volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 4: November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot org. Why
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and wherefore of the colors of birds eggs? The why
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: and wherefore of the colors of birds eggs, says Ernest Ingersoll,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: has been a favorite theme for speculation, from the quaint
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: surmisings of Sir Thomas Brown to the solemn guesswork of Schufeldt.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: In his ten Biological Laws Explanatory of the variation in
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: color of the shells of the eggs in Class e's,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Hewittson piously concludes that the beauty of these elegant and
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: often exquisitely attractive objects is intended for the delight of
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: human eyes. Hence, as he says, eggs simply white are
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: put out of sight in holes, he also sees in
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: the larger number of eggs laid by game birds a
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: provision by a benevolent providence for the joy of the
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: sportsman and the delectation of the epicure. Next comes a
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: man who assures us that the colors of eggs are
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: due to the influence of their respective surroundings on the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: imagination of the hen birds the old story of Jacob's
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: little trick on the ban In the matter of young cattle,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: this school instances, as an example, the red blotches prevalent
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: on the eggs of falcons, regarded by it as a
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: record of the bloody experiences of the parents. But it
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: does not explain why the equally rapacious owls produce pure
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: white ags, or the bloodthirsty skuas and strikes lay greenish ones.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Other equally fallacious theorizings might be noted. End of section four.
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  Speaker 1: Section five of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, four
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  Speaker 1: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Betty B. Section five t Camellia thea Link Doctor Albert Schneider,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Northwestern University School of Pharmacy. The Gentle fair on nervous
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: t relies, while SKay good nature sparkles in her eyes
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: crab inebriety. The highly esteemed drink referred to in the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: above lines is made from the leaves and very young
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: terminal branches of a shrub known as Camellia thea. The
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: shrub is spreading, usually two or three meters high, though
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: it may attain a height of nine or ten meters.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It has smooth, dark green, alternate, irregularly serate, dentate, lanceolate
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to obovate, blunt pointed, simple leaves. The young leaves and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: branches are wooly owing to the presence of numerous hair cells.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: The flowers are perfect solitary or in twos and threes
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in the axils of the leaves. They are white and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: rather showy. Some authors state that they are fragrant, while
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: others state that they are practically odourless. Stamens are numerous.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: The ovary is three celled, with one seed in each cell,
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  Speaker 1: which is about the size of a cherry seed. The
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  Speaker 1: tea plant is no doubt a native of India Upper Assam,
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  Speaker 1: from whence it was early introduced into China, where it
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  Speaker 1: is now cultivated on an immense scale. It is, however,
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  Speaker 1: also extensively cultivated in various parts of India, in Japan, Java, Australia, Sicily, Korea,
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  Speaker 1: and other tropical and subtropical countries and islands. It is
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: also cultivated to some extent in the southern United States,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: as in Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and California, but apparently without
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: any great success. The plant is extensively grown in greenhouses
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and conservatories on account of its beauty. According to a
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Japanese myth, the tea plant originated as follows, a very
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: pious follower of Buddha Dharma found that he would pray
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: without ceasing. He had prayed for some years when finally
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  Speaker 1: the evil one overpowered him and he fell asleep. When
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he awoke, he felt so chagrined and humiliated that he
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  Speaker 1: cut off both his eyelids and threw them from him.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: From the spot where they fell grew two plants, endowed
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  Speaker 1: with the property of dispelling sleep. Chinese writers maintained that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: priests of Buddha introduced the plant from India. Some authorities
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: are inclined to believe that the plant is a native
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of China, others that it was brought from Korea to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: China about the ninth century. Tea drinking was supposed to
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: have been discovered by a servant of Emperor U TEI
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: one hundred fifty b c. But concerning this there is
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: much uncertainty. It is said to have been in use
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  Speaker 1: in Japan as early as seven hundred twenty nine of
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: our era. The first definite information about tea consumption in
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: China dates from the year fifteen hundred fifty, when a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Persian merchant brought tea from that country to Venice. At
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a little later period, we find tea mentioned in various
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: letters and documents of travelers and merchants. Yet it is
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  Speaker 1: evident that it was a costly and rare article as
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  Speaker 1: late as sixteen hundred sixty. In sixteen sixty four, the
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  Speaker 1: East India Company presented the Queen of England with two
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: pounds of tea. In fact, it was not until the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the eighteenth century and later that tea began
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to be used in different parts of Europe. During the
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  Speaker 1: latter part of the seventeenth century and the beginning of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the eighteenth century, tea houses were established in various cities
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of Europe, especially in England. At the present time, tea houses,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: like coffee houses, have become practically extinct in civilized countries,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but that does not imply that tea drinking and coffee
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: drinking are on the wain. Among the English and Slavs,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: tea parties are all the rage. The favorite Gesellschaft Cafe
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: coffee party of German housewives indicates that they give coffee
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  Speaker 1: the preference. The biggest tea party on record was doubtless
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  Speaker 1: the so called Boston Tea Party, at which tea valued
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  Speaker 1: at eighteen thousand pounds sterling was destroyed in spite of
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the tropical origin of the plant. The largest quantities of
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  Speaker 1: tea are consumed in northern countries, notably in Russia and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Asiatic Russia. Large quantities are consumed in England and the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: United States. Most authorities are agreed that the different kinds
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of tea on the market are derived from the same
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: species of plant. Some admit a variety c thea variety veritas.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: The following are the principal teas of the market and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the manner of their preparation. One green tea, after collecting
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the leaves, are allowed to lie for about two hours
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in warmed pans and stirred and then rolled upon small
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: bamboo tables, whereupon they are further dried upon hurdles and
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  Speaker 1: again in heated pans for about one hour, accompanied by stirring.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: The leaves now assume a bluish green color, which is
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  Speaker 1: frequently enhanced by adding Prussian blue or indigo. Of these
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: green teas, the most important are gunpowder, Twanquey Hycin, young
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: hycin hycin skin, Songla soulong, and Imperial two black tea.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The leaves are allowed to lie in heaps for a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: day when they are thoroughly shaken and mixed. After another
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: period of rest two to three days, they are dried
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and rolled, much as green tea. In the storing process,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the leaves undergo a fermentation which develops the aroma and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the dark color. The following are the principal varieties, can Impo, Congo, lingky,
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  Speaker 1: som padre suchonp Caravan tea, Pico, souchong, and bohee. In
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  Speaker 1: some countries, the teas are scented with jasmine flowers or
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: orange flowers. This is, however, no longer extensively practiced. The
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: essentially Chinese custom of coloring teas with Prussian blue, gypsum
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and indigo is dying out, at least so far as
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  Speaker 1: the export trade is concerned, because intelligent, civilized consumers are
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  Speaker 1: beginning to prefer the uncolored teas. Competent authorities maintain that
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  Speaker 1: there is not enough of the coloring substances added to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: be harmful. The workmen preparing the better qualities of tea
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: are not permitted to eat fish, as the very enduring
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and penetrating fish flavor would be transmitted to the tea
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: in the thorough handling. It seems, however, that a more
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: or less distinct fishy flavor is perceptible in many teas,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: even the better qualities. Tea dust consists of remnants from
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: tea chests, dust from the working tables upon which the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: leaves are rolled. In fact, tea refuse of all kinds.
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  Speaker 1: It is certainly not a desirable article. Besides true tea,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: there are leaves and other parts of a great variety
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  Speaker 1: of plants which have been used as tea. To enumerate
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and describe these would be impracticable in this paper. The
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  Speaker 1: following are a few of the more important. Paraguay tea
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: or mate, is highly esteemed in South America. The Koreans
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: prepare tea from ginger. The poor Siberians use cabbage leaves.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Teas are made from the leaves of a great variety
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of herbs, which are supposed to have medicinal or stimulating
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: properties similar to those of tea. Peppermint tea and cammomile
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: tea are greatly esteemed in certain localities. Concerning the adulteration
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of tea, there seems to be considerable difference of opinion,
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  Speaker 1: some authorities maintaining that adulteration is common, while others maintain
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  Speaker 1: that it is very rare. Indeed, there is, however, little
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  Speaker 1: doubt that used tea is frequently re dried, re rolled,
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  Speaker 1: and resold as good tea. Willow leaves, strawberry leaves, and
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  Speaker 1: mulberry leaves are said to be added occasionally. Every housewife
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  Speaker 1: knows that good tea is expensive. Since the different teas
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: are all from the same species of plant, why should
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  Speaker 1: there be such a difference in price. The expensive teas
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: consist of the very young leaves and terminal branches, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: are carefully dried and prepared under special supervision. The young
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: leaves and branches have a more delicate flavor. To determine
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: whether a sample of tea consists of young leaves or not.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Soak it in water. Carefully roll out the leaves and
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: measure them. If the majority of leaves many an inch
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  Speaker 1: or more in length, it is a poor quality. It
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: must be remembered that even fair medium qualities are mixed,
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  Speaker 1: that is, they consist of mature and immature leaves. The
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  Speaker 1: best and most expensive teas are often sold at one
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars per pound. They are never exported, but consumed
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  Speaker 1: by high Chinese officials. Imperial tea is prepared under the
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  Speaker 1: direct supervision of royal government officials. T owes its stimulating
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: properties to an active constituent known as thien, which is
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: in all respects similar to caffeine, the active constituent of coffee.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: The flavor, which is developed by the drying process, is
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: due to several constituents. Besides these substances, tea also contains
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: considerable tannin. Tea consumed in moderate quantities is beneficial rather
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: than otherwise. Its injurious properties are due to them. The
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: tannin which affects digestion if consumed in large quantities for
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a long time. The theene causes nervousness, and the tannin
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: causes various dyspeptic conditions. In China, some chew the leaves
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: treated with arsenic to improve the complexion. The whitening of
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the complexion is, however, due to the arsenic and not
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: the tea. Tea is prepared in different ways in different countries. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the preparation of a good cup of tea is comparatively simple,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: leaving out of consideration the many paraphernalia used by different nations,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and which really have no effect except that upon the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: The following is Emperor Kian Lung's sixteen eighty recipe for
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: making tea, and which is frequently found upon Chinese tea cups.
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  Speaker 1: Over a moderate fire place a vessel with three feet,
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  Speaker 1: showing by its color and form that it has been
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: much used. Fill with clear water of melted snow, and
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  Speaker 1: heat it until the water will turn a fish white
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  Speaker 1: or a lobster red. Pour this water into a cup
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  Speaker 1: containing the leaves of a select variety of tea. Allow
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  Speaker 1: it to stand until the first rising vapors, which form
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a dense cloud, become gradually less and float over the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: surface as a faint mist. Drink this precious liquid slowly,
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  Speaker 1: and thou wilt find in a powerful dissipator of the
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  Speaker 1: five sorrows which disturb our minds, the sweet and peaceful
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: rest which we owe to this drink. We may taste
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: and feel, but may not describe. This recipe, although two
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: hundred years old, has not been improved upon. Stated in
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: a little simpler form, the recipe would read, in a
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: cup with good tea leaves, pour clean boiling water and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: allow it to stand five or six minutes, Decant, and
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: drink slowly. Tea leaves should never be infused for a
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: long time for several reasons. The flavor dissipates, and the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: objectionable tannin is more and more extracted, imparting to the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: tea a stringency and a bitterness, which are not only
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  Speaker 1: disagreeable to the taste, but also cause indigestion and constipation.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: After the tea is prepared as indicated, it may be
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: taken hot or cold, with or without sugar, with or
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: without cream or milk. Iced tea with a little lemon
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  Speaker 1: juice added is a delicious drink for hot weather it
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: is cooling. Besides having a tendency to check excessive perspiration,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: tea has also been found valuable as a wash for
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: inflammation of the eyes. In conclusion, I wish to refer
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  Speaker 1: the reader to an article in the July number of
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: The Cosmopolitan on tea drinking in many Lands by Laura B. Starr,
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  Speaker 1: in which are related many interesting customs relative to the
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  Speaker 1: use and preparation of tea. End of section five.
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  Speaker 5: Section six of Birds in All Nature, Volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 5: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 5: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot Org. Recording by
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  Speaker 5: Larry Wilson. The Towi Chiwink pippelo Erythothalmus by LYNDS. Jones.
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  Speaker 5: The home of my childhood in early youth nestles in
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  Speaker 5: one of the gems of woodland which are so characteristic
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: of the rolling prairies of central Iowa. This one hundred
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: acre grove covers five main hills with their valleys and
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  Speaker 5: the lesser runs, which divide each of the five hills
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  Speaker 5: into two, three or four lesser hills. The hills radiate
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  Speaker 5: in a semicircle to the north and west from the
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  Speaker 5: height on which the old home stands, rolling away to
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  Speaker 5: the creek which bathes their feet. Here are tall, heavy
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  Speaker 5: woods without underbrush covering the north slopes, lower more open
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  Speaker 5: woods with patches of plum and wild crab apple trees
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  Speaker 5: with some hazel brush on all lower slopes of the hills,
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  Speaker 5: and finally a liberal fringe of low brushy trees, hawthorn,
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  Speaker 5: plum and crab apple trees, and dense hazel brush on
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  Speaker 5: the uplands and on lower lands away from the creek.
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  Speaker 5: This dense growth also fringes the county road, which extends
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  Speaker 5: from end to end of the grove, and it was
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  Speaker 5: from this roadside that Towie first heralded his arrival from
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: the south. During the bright days of late March or
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  Speaker 5: early April, when the frost had left the ground and
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: his mate was growing anxious to be selecting a nesting place,
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  Speaker 5: he might be seen on the topmost twig of one
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  Speaker 5: of the taller small trees in every brushy place on
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  Speaker 5: every hillside. I have sometimes wondered if the Towy household
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: did not have some disagreement about the family name. For
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: the male from his elevated perch loudly called the wee,
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: while his spouse on the ground below no less vigorously
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: reiterates to wink, but if danger seems to threaten, his
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: lordship quickly descends to join his mate in earnest warning
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: that this small bit of earth belongs by right of
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: discovery to chewink. How earnestly, both birds emphasized their claim
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: by the nervous fluff of the short, stiff wings and
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: the quick spreading of the long tail, as if the
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: large patches of white at its end would startle the
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: intruder away. But the male bird does not always confine
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: himself to the iteration of the name he seems to
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: love so well. Instead of the single first syllable, there
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: may be two or even three no two in the
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: same pitch. It has been a surprise to me that
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: persons unfamiliar with the Towee's song do not realize that
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: the two parts proceed from the same bird. To them.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: The first part seems to resemble some part of the
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: wood thrush's song, and the last part the he the
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: rattle of the downy woodpecker. My ear persistently renders the
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: whole song towee or towee or oh towe. Others render
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: it chuck, burd pillow, will a will, but toe is
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: not limited to this variety of vocalization. Besides the abbreviation
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: of his chewink alarm note to swink or even wink,
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: or a chuck chuck. When the nest is threatened, he
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: sometimes sings a rarely beautiful ditty which is totally unlike
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: any of his other performances. I have heard it only
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: shortly after his arrival from the south, before his mate
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: had joined him, and have tried in vain to describe it.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: The bird moves slowly and sedately among the fallen leaves
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: in a soliloquy over the happenings of the long journey
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: just ended, with apparently no thought of the absent mate.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: The manner of its utterance indicates that this is the
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: bird's private song, egotistic if you please, while his treetop
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: rendition is evidently his altruistic performance. The ordinary song and
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: call and alarm notes are well rendered in the local
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: names bestowed upon the bird to we to wink, jorrit jory, Shahi,
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: pink pink, and wink wink. His chestnut colored sides and
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: lowly habits have given him the names of ground robin
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: and swamp robin. And his red iris eyed till we
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: Nesting begins about the first of May. In northern Ohio.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: The nest is almost always placed on the ground, often
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: in a slight depression made by the birds, rarely in
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: a bush up to seven feet from the ground. It
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: is made of material easily accessible in the region of
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: the nest, of dry leaves for foundation upon which plant stems,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: Dry grass, grape vine, bark or like material is arranged,
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: and the whole lined with fine rutlets. The material will
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: vary somewhat with locality and situation of the nest. As
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: a matter of course, rarely the nest may be covered
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: with the entrance in the side, but it is usually
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: not covered. The nest site is preferably some distance from
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: the road or footpath, often in moderately deep woods where
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: there is little underbrush, but more often in the shrubbery
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: fringing the woods, either on a hilltop or side hill
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: or bottomland. Here at Oberlin, Ohio, I have found more
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: nests in the low second growth near swampy places than elsewhere.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: The nest compliment is from three to five eggs, usually four.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: The egg seems to be a rather rounded ovate running
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: to nearly spherical on the one hand, to elongate oval
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: on the other. The ground color is white, not seldom
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: tinged with pink or blue, with sprinkling of reddish brown dots, spots,
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: and blotches. It is a common experience to find eggs
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: of the parasitic cowbird and nests of towe. Twice I
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: have found nests on which the mother Towe was serenely
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: sitting with four eggs of the cowbird underneath her and
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: none of her own. Two eggs of the cowbird and
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: two or three of the towi in a nest are common.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Sometimes the parasitic eggs so closely resemble those of the
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: parent that it is not easy to distinguish between them,
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: but often the differences are very marked. The Towi is
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: a fairly common inhabitant of the whole region east of
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: the Rocky Mountains and north to the northern border of
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: the United States, reading everywhere north of northern Alabama. In
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  Speaker 5: the section six.
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  Speaker 6: Section seven of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 6: November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot org by
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  Speaker 6: David Lawrence. October twenty sixteen, we babies by Ella f
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: mosby the past summer, I saw the most charming baby
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: bird of my life. He was so tiny and silvery,
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: his upper feathers such a lovely olive green, and the
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: under plumage such soft white, and over the bright, innocent
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: little eyes a beautiful curving line like an eyebrow. I
• 49:09
  Speaker 6: did not at first recognize him, But the next day
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: I saw too, probably of the same flock, hunting very
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: industriously over an old tree, and I knew they were
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: the young red eyed vireos. Their feathers were all new
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: and fresh, and that made them look so silvery, and
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: the tints seemed so clear. The same summer I became
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: very well acquainted with a different set of bird babies.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: They were still younger, for their feathers had a soft,
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: downy look and fluffed out so that they really looked
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: larger than their tiny parts. They were silver gray, the
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: little blue gray netcatchers, And nothing could be more charming
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: than the way they twinkled about the bushes or turned
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: somersaults in the air to catch flying insects on the wing.
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  Speaker 6: Their little songs as low as whispers, their call notes
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: like a banjo string ding, and even their low scoldings
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: were very pretty and seemed to belong to them perfectly.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: Some one who did not know birds very well called
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: them little wrens, and they really had a good Many
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: of the restless movements and alert attitudes of these birds,
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: but their habits are totally different. For instance, their life
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: begins in a lichen cup high up among the top boughs,
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: and it is only in the late summer, when birds
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: break their rules and go as they please for a
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: brief holiday time before the migration, that you will see
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: the netcatchers come down to the low bushes. I can
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: hardly believe it myself, but I once saw a young
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: one picking away on the ground. One charm about the
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: tiny birds net catchers, chebeks, vireos, kinglets and the like
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: is that they are not usually so shy as large,
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: handsome birds, and I have often had them almost within touch, singing, peating,
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: preening their feathers in the loveliest and most confiding way.
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  Speaker 6: End of section seven. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Section eight of Birds and All Nature, Volume Sixner four,
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  Speaker 3: November 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
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• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Wishton Wish Emma M. Greenleaf. One bright morning, Wishton Wish
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: sat on the mound in front of his family borough.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Wishton Wish was a lively young prairie dog, and he
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: wanted to talk with some one. Presently, Madame Talkie came
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: out of her burrow and ran up to the top
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: of her mound. Good morning, called out Wishton Wish. But
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Madame Talkie did not even turn her head his way,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I dare say, she thought to herself, humph, a cheeto,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: A fellow like that isn't worth my time now. Wishton
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: Wish was an only boy in a family where there
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: were five other children, so that he had come to believe,
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: as only sons often do, that he was wise enough
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: to talk with a very solomon of prairie dogs. The
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: silence of Madame Talkie didn't hurt his feelings in the least.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Presently he called out again, and this time with great attact,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: how are your charming daughters this morning? Oh, you should
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: have seen the change in missus Talkie. She turned her
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: whole face told Wishton wish now and fairly beamed upon him.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Very well. Indeed, thank you, she answered, you must call
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: to see us. And this time I dare say, She
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: thought to herself, why I can hardly realize that the
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: young fellow is about grown up? How fine he looks too.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: His family must have great confidence in him to let
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: him be sentinel when he is so young. Wishton wish
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: thanked her politely for the invitation, and said that perhaps
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: he might call that afternoon. Have you heard that mister
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Grizzle prairie Dog has been found, asked Madame Talkie. No where,
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: said Wishton wish Oh, in a very strange place. Madam answered,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: it was mister Talkie that found him. At least we
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: feel pretty sure that he did. It was this way.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Mister Talkie often has attacks of dyspepsia, and last night
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: he ate so much Timothy Hay for his supper that
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: he had to run back and forth in our burrows
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: for exercise. Ever so long before he went to bed,
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: he put his head out at the end of the
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: longest burrow to see if the moon was full, and
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: there stood two boys with a gun and a dead hawk.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: He heard them say they wanted the hawk for a collection.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Then one of them said, wish we could have shot
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: it before it caught that prairie dog. Mister Torkie was
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: so dreadfully startled that he whirled round and fairly flew
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: back through the burrow to his nest. But we feel
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: sure it was mister Grizzle that the hawk had caught.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: How many enemies our race has? Said wishton wish, with
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: a sigh. Have you told missus Grizzle the sad news? Yes,
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I told her before sunrise this morning. But she's got
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: used to it now, Oh, and doesn't feel so bad.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: He had been missing two days, you know. I saw
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: her going after clover with mister Reddy, prairie dog. You remember,
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: missus Reddy. Was it enough by a coyote last week?
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Dear me, dear me, sighed wishton wish again, how many
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: enemies our race has? Just then there came a warning
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: yelp from a sentinel some distance away. Madam Talkie and
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: wished on wish and every other prairie dog in sight
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: echoed the yelp, and then each one of them leaped
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: into his burrow like a flash. They must have turned
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: a double quick summersault for like another flash. There were
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: the little heads and bright eyes looking out at the
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: very openings where their tails had vanished an instant before,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: scores of curious little faces were peering out, and their
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: owners were anxious to know what made the first prayer
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: dog called out Danger. Danger. Again. Came several quick calls
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: from the distant sentinel. Then all the little animals disappeared
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: into their burrows. No, not quite all of them. Way
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: over on last Street there was an exciting scene. Mister
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Silence's prairie dog sat upright in front of his door,
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: fairly shaking all over with anger. His body shook, his
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: tail shook, his head shook, and he yelped and barked,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: turned and popped into his burrow, turned again and popped
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: out of his burrow in the same instant, and acted
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: like one going crazy, no wonder. Crawling slowly along through
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: the short dry grass, came a large rattle snake. Nearer
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: and nearer it glided to the door of the burrow.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: When it was almost there, mister silence prairie dog keeled
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: into his house, and snakes slid after him, and then
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: silence fell. That night, the village heard the rest of
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: the story. How mister and Missus Silence prairie dog bit
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: at the rattle snake with their sharp teeth and scratched
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: at him with their sharp claws, but could not drive
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: him out of their nest where lay two baby prairie dogs.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: These two he ate for his dinner, and then lay
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: down in the deep, soft, warm nest of dry grass.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: How Mother Silence crept back after a long time and
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: found the greedy old snake lying dead, Yes, truly killed
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: by the fierce bites of mister and missus Silence. Now,
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: all the these sad affairs made young Wishton wish quite blue. Besides,
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: when he went that afternoon to call on the talkie misses,
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: he found that the plumpest one had gone after Timothy
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: with another young fellow. All at once he made up
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: his mind that life was a failure, and that he
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: would run away from home. When the prairie dog folk
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: found out that he was gone, they were very sorry.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: They felt sure he had been eaten by some bird
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: of prey or by a sly coyote. He was so wise,
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: and so handsome, and so brave, said his mother. There
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: was no young fellow in the village who could be
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: named in the same day with Wishton Wish. Most everybody
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: praised him, now that he was dead, or now that
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: they thought he was. I wonder if it isn't rather
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: a poor plan to wait until people are dead or
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: far away before we say the kind things that might
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: have made them happy when they were near. We must
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: not neglect our duties even in sorrow, said the father.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: It is going to rain. Let us go out and
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: put our mound into good order, so that the water
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: may not run into our burrows. They worked with a will,
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: and found out, as every one always does, that nothing
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: helps sorrow and trouble so quickly as hard work. When
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: morning came, the very first one to be out of
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: a burrow was wished on wishers mother. Perhaps she had
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: not slept any all night. She went up to the
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: top of the mound, then stood still with astonishment and joy,
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: for there on the other side of it was wished
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: On wish hard at work. He was patting and smoothing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: the sides and making them even after the rain. Oh
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: where have you been all night? Wished On wish cried
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: his mother. I went over to the next village. I
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: thought they might not have so many troubles as we have,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: and perhaps I'd stay. But they have even more, mother,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: They have snakes and hawks, and owls and coyotes and men.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: For yesterday some men came there with a great tank
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: of water and poured five barrels into one burrow. They
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: said they were making an experiment. Of course, they couldn't
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: drown anybody, because the burrows run down and up in
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: every direction. So I thought I'd come home again, my son,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: said his mother. You have learned a wise lesson. It
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: is of no use to run away from trouble hoping
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: to fire, and a place where there isn't any Trouble
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: comes everywhere, and so does happiness. Yes, mother, I believe it,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: said Wishton Wish, and he looked with soft eyes over
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: toward the borah of the plumpest miss Talkie. End of section.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: Eight, Section nine of Birds in All Nature, Volume six,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: number four, November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot Org.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: The Bee and the Flower Missus G. T. Drennan. Virgil,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: in his pastorals, beautifully alludes to the industry of the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: bee in culling its sweets from the flower. Perhaps we
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: do not definitely know more of the mystery of the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: flowers secreting the nectar, and of the bees making the honey,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: then was known in ancient times. There are differences of
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: opinion on the subject. Darwin considers the honey secreted by
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: the nectary to be the natural food with which the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: stamens and pistols are nourished. Others assert that the only
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: use of honey with which flowers are supplied is to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: tempt insects, which, in procuring it, scatter the dust of
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: the anthers and fertilize the flowers, and even carry the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: pollen from barren to fertile flowers. Linnaeus considered the nectary
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: a separate organ from the corolla, and every part of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: the flower which was neither stamen, pistol, calyx nor corolla
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: he called a nectary. But what he called nectaries are
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: at present regarded as modifications of some part of the flower,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: in some cases a prolonged ungation of the petals, and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: in others an inner row of petals or modified stamens
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: adhering to the corolla. The term disc is now applied
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: to whatever appendages appear between the stamen and pistol. Formerly
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: called nectaries. The form of the honey sack or nectary
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: differs with different flowers. In the lily, it is a
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: mere cavity or gland. In the honeysuckle, a golden fluid
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: is secreted at the end of the tube without the sack.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: Few things in nature can be more beautiful than the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: nectary and the honey drops in the Crown Imperial. Each
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: one is a shallow cup of pearly white. From each
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: cup hangs a shining drop like a tear. The tint
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: of the cup gives the drop its hue, and each
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: one looks like a splendid pearl fastened in the crown
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: of each of the flowers of the Crown Imperial, which
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: hanging down, only display the pearly honey drops when we
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: look up into the flower. The buttercup is one of
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: the most interesting flowers that secrete nectar. It belongs to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: the Renunclius or crowfoot family, which numbers many wild and
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: some of the choicest of cultivated flowers. The nectar cups
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: are under the petals, and the mission of the flowers
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: seems to be to feed the bees. It is well
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: known that beyond the realm of romance and poetry. The
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: buttercup is a plant abhorred by the cow that gives
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: the milk that makes the butter. The lovely yellow color
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: of the buttercup no doubt suggested the name. Apiarists know
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: that certain kinds of flowers make certain grades of honey.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: They know also that while the bee makes its honey
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 4: from the flower, it will also make honey from sugar
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: and molasses. The drainings of molasses casks are given the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: bee for winter food, and it is one of the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: unsolved mysteries how the bee makes its honey. The nectar
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: in the flower is not honey. The bee makes the
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: honey from what is abstracted from the flower, and also
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: preserves life and makes honey from sweets that are given
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: it for food. Buckwheat is an example of dark, rich honey,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: and white clover and raspberry blooms of clear, translucent honey. Also,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: the fact is that abstracting the nectar in no way
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: impairs the beauty nor the fruitfulness of the flower. Instance,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: the rich productive buckwheat, how profusely it yields its flower
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: and raspberries ripe and sweet and juicy from vines that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: have had the bees hovering over the snowy blooms from
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  Speaker 4: the time they open till the berries form. Honey. Bees
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  Speaker 4: are not all is safe in their selection of flowers
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  Speaker 4: to feed upon. For Xenophon, in his Retreat of the
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  Speaker 4: ten Thousand, describes the honey of Trebizond as having produced
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  Speaker 4: the effect of temporary madness or drunkenness upon the whole army.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Abbott, writing from the same country in eighteen thirty three,
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  Speaker 4: says he witnessed the same effects of honey upon those
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  Speaker 4: partaking of it as Xenophone describes. This would indicate that
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  Speaker 4: the honey undergoes some chemical change in the making, as
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  Speaker 4: the bees in these instances were not injured by the flowers,
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  Speaker 4: yet the honey they made from them was injurious to man.
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  Speaker 4: End of Section nine. This recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 3: Domain Section ten of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 3: number four, November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 3: recording by Tavarish the canary Cernus Canarius c C M.
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  Speaker 3: This favorite singer and cage bird is a native of
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  Speaker 3: the Canary Islands, Madeiras Azores and other small islands near
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  Speaker 3: the western coast of Africa. The islands are in the
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  Speaker 3: latitude of Florida, and the climate may be said to
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  Speaker 3: be of a tropical character, though varied by lofty mountains,
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  Speaker 3: the canary in its native habitat is chiefly found in
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  Speaker 3: the mountainous districts, often several thousand feet above the level
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  Speaker 3: of the sea. The wild birds mate about the latter
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  Speaker 3: part of March. The nest is built in the tall
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  Speaker 3: trees of the evergreen species, frequently in the tops of
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  Speaker 3: these trees ease, and never less than eight or ten
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  Speaker 3: feet from the ground. We have seen it stated that
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  Speaker 3: they build on the ground, but this has been found
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  Speaker 3: to be an error. The first canaries known to Europeans
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  Speaker 3: were brought from there by a merchant ship trading with
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  Speaker 3: the Canary Islands as a part of her cargo, several
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  Speaker 3: thousand of these birds having been trapped in the hope
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  Speaker 3: that they could be sold for a good price as
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  Speaker 3: song birds. The ship was wrecked near the coast of Italy,
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  Speaker 3: but by the thoughtfulness of a sailor, the cage containing
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  Speaker 3: the birds was opened and the birds liberated. They flew
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  Speaker 3: at once to the nearest point of land, which happened
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  Speaker 3: to be the island of Elba. The climate was so
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  Speaker 3: propitious that the canaries multiplied rapidly in a very short time.
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  Speaker 3: Their superiority as songsters attracted attention, and their domestication followed.
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  Speaker 3: The shipwreck referred to occurred early in the sixteenth century.
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  Speaker 3: The Italians were the first to breed these birds, and
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  Speaker 3: they were by them shipped to Russia, Germany, Belgium and England.
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  Speaker 3: They were first described in an English book on natural
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  Speaker 3: history in sixteen ten. The rage for breeding the canary
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  Speaker 3: with home birds became curiously popular and resulted in a
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  Speaker 3: curious intermixture of colors. In Italy they were bred with
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  Speaker 3: the citril and seren, in Germany with the linnet, green
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  Speaker 3: finch and siskin. Mister C. M. Page says in his
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  Speaker 3: Feathered Pets, a very valuable book for birds fanciers, that
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  Speaker 3: in an English book published in seventeen o nine, there
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  Speaker 3: are twenty eight varieties of canaries mentioned, comprising nearly all
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  Speaker 3: those known at the present time, and some which have
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  Speaker 3: become extinct. The climate has also had much to do
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  Speaker 3: with the change of color in these birds. The canary,
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  Speaker 3: which in its native home at Tenerife is almost brown,
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  Speaker 3: becomes yellow and sometimes nearly white after being bred a
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  Speaker 3: few years in France, and it has been observed by
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  Speaker 3: naturalists that the winter fur of animals and feathers of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: birds become thicker and lighter in color in proportion to
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  Speaker 3: the coldness of the climate which they inhabit. In England
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  Speaker 3: and Germany, canary societies have existed for upwards of a century,
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  Speaker 3: and annual shows or exhibitions are held with prizes offered
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  Speaker 3: for the best birds. Of the many varieties of canaries,
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  Speaker 3: the most popular in the United States is the German.
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  Speaker 3: It is smaller than the English canary and is a
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  Speaker 3: much finer singer. Being bred and trained for song and
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  Speaker 3: not for size, they are called Harts Mountain canaries, and
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  Speaker 3: experts consider them the most satisfactory bird for the people.
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  Speaker 3: They are bred by the peasants in ordinary living rooms
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  Speaker 3: high up among the huts mountains of Germany. These birds
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  Speaker 3: are even more hardy than the American bred canaries. They
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  Speaker 3: are brilliant singers. We had one for five years, and
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  Speaker 3: while its voice was wonderfully clear, full and musical. It
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  Speaker 3: was too loud and was not admired by our neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: The shrill and piercing note of some of this species
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  Speaker 3: renders them somewhat objectionable as house pets. The birds are
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  Speaker 3: happy in the cage, require very little care, and if
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  Speaker 3: properly attended to, are said to be free from diseases.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the Hart's Mountain canaries are somewhat mottled with
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  Speaker 3: dark greenish brown, though many of the birds are clear
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  Speaker 3: yellow and few have crests. In the canary breeding section
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  Speaker 3: of Germany, almost every family keeps a few cages of
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  Speaker 3: these birds or has a room devoted to their breeding.
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  Speaker 3: The German people are very fond of birds, and there
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  Speaker 3: are many of them in the United States who have
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  Speaker 3: many cages of rare specimens. Milwaukee supplies the United States
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  Speaker 3: with the bulk of the Hartz Mountain canaries, and there
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  Speaker 3: is no great crime in the deception, for the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 3: bird is really an improvement on the imported article, having
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  Speaker 3: just as finer voice and being much hardier. Experience has
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  Speaker 3: shown that the imported singer loses the power of transmitting
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  Speaker 3: his voice to the young after passing through an American winter.
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  Speaker 3: This is the case also, it is said with Tyrolean
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  Speaker 3: singers who come to this country, their voices losing the
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  Speaker 3: peculiar yodling quality when they have been here a year.
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  Speaker 3: The native canary is hardier than the important one, and
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  Speaker 3: with proper training, is every bit as good as singer.
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  Speaker 3: Before they are mated, the hand birds are kept in
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  Speaker 3: separate cages in the music room, carefully fed and made
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  Speaker 3: to listen to the music of the singers and the
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  Speaker 3: machine used in training their voices. In this way, the
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  Speaker 3: hen is enabled to transmit the best musical quality to
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  Speaker 3: her offspring. The music room is a large one with
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  Speaker 3: a south exposure, and is kept with the same scrupulous
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  Speaker 3: neatness as the breeding room. In the corner of this
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  Speaker 3: room is the bird organ, and with it the little
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  Speaker 3: birds are given their vocal training. When the machine is started,
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  Speaker 3: the notes emitted are wonderfully like the song of the
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  Speaker 3: untutored canary. These notes are known to bird trainers by
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  Speaker 3: the term pfiphen. Gradually, the whistle strikes onto a different line.
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  Speaker 3: It is an improvement over the pithen and is called
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  Speaker 3: the klingle rolle. A higher step still is called the
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  Speaker 3: klingel and the still higher step haull Klingle. Lastly comes
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  Speaker 3: what is called hall rollin, and a bird whose voice
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  Speaker 3: has been developed up to the point is worth fifty
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  Speaker 3: dollars in the market any day. In this country, there
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  Speaker 3: are only three importers of canaries. Each of these firms
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  Speaker 3: employs bird pickers who travel over the mountains in Germany
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  Speaker 3: and gather together as supply of birds, which are selected
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  Speaker 3: from the stocks of the small breeders. There are several
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  Speaker 3: varieties of English canaries. The Norwich is a general favorite it.
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  Speaker 3: It takes its name from the city of Norwich, where
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  Speaker 3: for generations it has been bred and cultivated. It has
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  Speaker 3: a brilliant, deep reddish yellow plumage. It is regarded as
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  Speaker 3: the most beautiful of the canaries. Its color is frequently
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  Speaker 3: so dark that it is called the red canary. These
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  Speaker 3: calor is produced artificially by feeding them during the molting
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: season a large amount of cayenne pepper mixed with hard
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: boiled egg and cracker crumbs. Canaries have many pretty ways
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  Speaker 3: and can be taught many pretty tricks. One that belonged
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  Speaker 3: to the writer had been deprived of its feet. Its
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  Speaker 3: wing feathers never grew out hence it could not fly
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  Speaker 3: or perch, and was obliged to stump about on the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: floor like an old veteran on his crutch. But it
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  Speaker 3: was healthy and vigorous, and so pugnacious that on our
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  Speaker 3: return after the days a absence, it would fly at
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: us or try to poor thing and pack our outstretched fingers,
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  Speaker 3: even while taking offered hempseed greasily. The bird watched and
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  Speaker 3: waited for our coming, and we became so much attached
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  Speaker 3: to it that its death was a real loss. The
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  Speaker 3: little birds can fill our hearts as full as large
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  Speaker 3: a creatures arts. The nest of the canary is a
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  Speaker 3: pretty neatly formed structure of any soft material it can find.
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  Speaker 3: Five bluish eggs are usually laid, and three or four
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  Speaker 3: broods are raised between February and September, though the female
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  Speaker 3: will sometimes persist in building until mauch later. End of
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  Speaker 3: section ten, Section eleven of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, No. Four,
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  Speaker 3: November eighteen ninety nine, Recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 3: Tavarish The parakeet. I am sorry, wrote a little girl
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  Speaker 3: from Terrytown, New York, to the editor of Birds and
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  Speaker 3: All Nature, not to find in your magazine any more
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  Speaker 3: the bird talks to the little folks. I used to
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  Speaker 3: read them with so much interest. Are there to be
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  Speaker 3: no more of them? Other little folks have written to
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  Speaker 3: the editor in much the same strain, so that this
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  Speaker 3: month the parakeet will speak for himself. From my photograph,
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  Speaker 3: he says, you will notice that I am fond of
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  Speaker 3: gay dress, green, blue, yellow, orange, crome, and red being
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  Speaker 3: my favorite colors. From my brilliant coat, you would judge
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  Speaker 3: me to be a tropical bird, but I am not.
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  Speaker 3: I was born and raised in the United States, as
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  Speaker 3: was my family. Therefore I am an American citizen. In appearance,
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  Speaker 3: I greatly resemble my cousin, the glib tongued parrot. But
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  Speaker 3: for some reason, though my tongue is thick and short
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  Speaker 3: like his, and my bill is charmingly curved, I cannot talk.
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  Speaker 3: That is not to be understood by the human family.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, for among ourselves we keep up a very
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  Speaker 3: lively conversation in very loud tones, a mark we think,
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  Speaker 3: as do some other folk of good breeding. On the
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  Speaker 3: other hand, there are people unreasonable enough not to like it,
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  Speaker 3: and they say we scream, and that our notes are
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  Speaker 3: ear splitting and that though we are beautiful to look
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  Speaker 3: upon and extremely docile, our voices render us undesirable as
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  Speaker 3: cage birds and pets. The idea as though we do
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  Speaker 3: not consider that very fortunate. For a cage is a prison,
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  Speaker 3: no matter if the bars are gilded for my power,
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  Speaker 3: I prefer to be free, even if I do have
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  Speaker 3: to hustle for a living. And between you and me,
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  Speaker 3: I think that a bird that can screech and doesn't
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  Speaker 3: screech when shut up in a little cage doesn't deserve
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  Speaker 3: to live. He ought to be killed and stuffed and
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  Speaker 3: set up in a museum for people to gape at.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think so too. It is a great pity.
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  Speaker 3: But we parakeets are fast being exterminated. In some regions.
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  Speaker 3: We're less than twenty five years ago, we were very plentiful.
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  Speaker 3: Not a parakeet is now to be seen. We were
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: once quite common in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and other
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  Speaker 3: parts of the United States. We are now to be
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  Speaker 3: found in diminished numbers in remote localities only of the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf States, and in some
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: regions of Florida. To escape from our enemy, the plume hunter.
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  Speaker 3: We make our homes in practically uninhabitable regions. That is
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: a long word for you little folks. But spell it
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  Speaker 3: out slowly as I did, and you will understand what
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  Speaker 3: it means. Our nesting time is during February and March.
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  Speaker 3: Then colonies of us parakeets, sometimes numbering a thousand, flock
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  Speaker 3: to a cypress swamp and build the hour of flimsy
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: nests in forks of trees near the end of a
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: slender horizontal branch. Often there are fifty nests in one
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  Speaker 3: small tree, each containing from four to five pretty greenish
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  Speaker 3: white eggs. It is a good thing we build our
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: nests in wild and unsettled places, for they are so
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  Speaker 3: flimsy that the eggs are plainly visible from beneath. What
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  Speaker 3: a temptation to the bad boy there would be, and
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: to the bad man also. Some parrokeets, however, choose a
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  Speaker 3: hollow tree in which to deposit their eggs. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: have told you about all I know of myself and family,
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  Speaker 3: so well closed by reciting in my very loudest and
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  Speaker 3: prettiest screech, so that all the neighbors may hear a
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  Speaker 3: few lines about a mister macaw who was silly enough
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  Speaker 3: after escaping from a cage to return to it. He
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  Speaker 3: is a cousin of mine, a distant cousin, for he
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: was born in South America. But he wears the same
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: colored coat and vest as I do. His tongue is
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: just as thick, and his bill curves like a parrot's,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: also mister Macaw's lesson. Mister Macaw was tired of his cage,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: too much of a prison for home. Mister Macaw was
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: in a great rage, and so he settled to Rome.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: The cage door was opened, the window too, strange chance
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: both opened together. So he took his chance, and away
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: he flew. But alas it was wintry weather. When from
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  Speaker 3: the north, ground covered with rhyme f frost that made
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: your limbs shiver, poor mister Macaw. This was not like
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: the climb on the banks of the Amazon River. So
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: mister Macaw grew wise as do men, when taught by experience. Bitter,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: he flew back to his cage and determined then he
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  Speaker 3: would never again be a flitter. End of section eleven.
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  Speaker 3: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section twelve of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 7: November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by
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  Speaker 7: Andrea Kay The Carolina paracat Conurus caroline by Lynn's Jones.
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  Speaker 7: Few birds indeed can lay claim to such beautiful and
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  Speaker 7: varied dress as our native paraquet. But for this dress,
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  Speaker 7: and for certain habits which will be spoken of more
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  Speaker 7: particularly a little later, he has had to pay a
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  Speaker 7: most severe penalty. Once an abundant bird over the whole
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 7: southeastern portion of the country, ranging commonly as far north
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  Speaker 7: as southern Ohio in Illinois, and sometimes even as far
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  Speaker 7: north as southern Michigan and New York, and as far
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 7: west as eastern Colorado, his numbers in range have been
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: reduced to a few individuals in the wilds of the
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  Speaker 7: Indian Territory and the adjacent parts of Texas and the
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: fastnesses of the Florida Swamps. The region over which he
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 7: ranged so numerously in advance of civilization suffers a distinct
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 7: one loss in his extermination. It is hardly fair to
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 7: lay the blame for the disappearance of this bird solely
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: at the door of the plume hunters and collectors, For
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 7: it must be admitted that the parakeet was a real
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 7: menace to the fruit grower and farmer when he was abundant,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 7: even his extreme fondness for the fruit of the cockleber,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 7: thistle and a few other noxious plants, could hardly atone
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 7: for the complete ruin of the apple crop, or his
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 7: serious inroads upon the wheat or cornfield. One could not
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 7: stand tamely by while a flock of these birds, with
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  Speaker 7: all their beauty, stripped his orchard of every blossom and bud.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 7: The food of the parakeet was entirely vegetable, consisting of
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 7: the seed of the cockleber, as already stated, sycamore and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 7: cyprus seed, pecan and beech nuts, the fruit of the papa, mulberries,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 7: wild grapes, and various other wild fruits, as well as
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 7: cultivated fruits. The seeds of pine cones and the burgrass.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 7: Grains of various kinds were eaten, while in the milk
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 7: and mister Frank M. Chapman found them eating the seeds
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 7: of thistles. So varied a diet enabled these birds to
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 7: pass the winter in the northern parts of their range
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 7: as well as farther south. It has been stated that
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 7: parakeets have been found hibernating in hollow trees in the
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 7: coldest winters. If they were actually found in such places,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 7: they were undoubtedly simply taking refuge from some severe storm,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 7: to issue forth again when it had passed. The parakeet's strong,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 7: hooked beak was probably so formed for the cutting of
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 7: stems and husks of plants, and the crushing of seeds
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 7: and nuts, but he also finds it useful in climbing
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 7: about trees, as an aid to his yoked feet, and
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 7: as a partial support while he sleeps in some hollow tree,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 7: the bill being hooked over a projection or into a
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 7: convenient crevice.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 8: Major Charles E.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 7: Ben Dyer describes the flight as undulating, like that of
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: the woodpeckers, but very swift, accompanied by a continuous chattering
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 7: while on the wing. The birds remain together and flocks
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 7: from six to twenty individuals before they became so scarce
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 7: by hundreds, and are very devoted to each other. The
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 7: cries of a wounded companion will always recall the whole
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 7: flock to his aid, thus enabling the hunter to kill
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 7: every bird in the flock. It is this characteristic, no doubt,
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 7: which has very largely caused the rapid disappearance of the
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 7: birds before advancing civilization. The nesting habits of the parakeet
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 7: are in some doubt, but the evidence seems to indicate
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 7: that the birds may rear their brood either in a
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: cavity in a tree or build a slight nest after
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 7: the fashion of the mourning dove. Such nests seem to
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: be largely confined to the cypress swamps of Florida. The eggs,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 7: several of which have been secured from birds in confinement,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 7: are pure glossy white, smooth, and rather ovate in shape,
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  Speaker 7: somewhat larger than those of the mourning dove and averaging
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 7: one point thirty nine by one point zero seven of
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  Speaker 7: an inch. These birds seem to nest in colonies, a
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  Speaker 7: fact which led Major Bendyer to suggest that when the
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  Speaker 7: colonies were very large, the birds were forced to build
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  Speaker 7: open nests from a lack of suitable nesting places in cavities.
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  Speaker 7: The cry is to described as shrill and disagreeable, a kind
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  Speaker 7: of grating, metallic shriek. One call resembles the shrill cry
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  Speaker 7: of a goose. They sometimes give utterance to low conversational
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  Speaker 7: notes while perched. It seems almost incredible that scarcely more
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  Speaker 7: than half a century has witnessed the passing of a
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  Speaker 7: once abundant species of our native bird, like the bison,
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  Speaker 7: the parrokeet has been swept away by the rushing tide
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  Speaker 7: of progress, leaving only fading memories where once they were
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  Speaker 7: characteristic features of the landscape. We may congratulate ourselves that
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  Speaker 7: there are few of our birds and mammals that find
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  Speaker 7: it so impossible to survive the advance of civilization. End
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  Speaker 7: of section twelve. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Section thirteen of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, No. Four,
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  Speaker 9: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 9: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 9: Jill Ingall. What the wood fire said to a little boy?
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  Speaker 9: What said the wood in the fire to the little
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  Speaker 9: boy that night, the little boy of the golden hair,
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  Speaker 9: as he rocked himself in his little arm chair, when
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  Speaker 9: the blaze was burning bright, the wood said, see what
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  Speaker 9: they've done to me? I stood in the forest, a
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  Speaker 9: beautiful tree, and waved my branches from east to west,
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  Speaker 9: and many a sweet bird built its nest in my
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  Speaker 9: leaves of green that loved to lean in springtime over
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  Speaker 9: the daisy's breast. From the Blosso dells where the violet dwells.
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  Speaker 9: The cattle came with their clanging bells and rested under
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  Speaker 9: my shadows sweet, and the winds that went over the
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  Speaker 9: clover and wheat told me all that they knew of
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  Speaker 9: the flowers that grew in the beautiful meadows that dreamed
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  Speaker 9: at my feet, and the wild winds caresses oft rumpled
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  Speaker 9: my tresses. But sometimes as soft as a mother's lip
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  Speaker 9: presses on the brow of the child of her bosom,
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  Speaker 9: it laid its lips on my leaves, and I was
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  Speaker 9: not afraid. And I listened and heard the small heart
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  Speaker 9: of each bird as it beat in the nests that
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  Speaker 9: their mothers had made. And in springtime, sweet faces of
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  Speaker 9: myriad graces came beaming and gleaming from flowery places, and
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  Speaker 9: under my grateful and enjoy giving shade. With cheeks like primroses,
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  Speaker 9: the little ones played, and the sunshine in showers through
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  Speaker 9: all the bright hours bound their flowery ringlets with stillovy braid.
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  Speaker 9: And the lightning came brightening from storm skies and frightening
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  Speaker 9: the wandering birds that were tossed by the breeze and
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  Speaker 9: tilted like ships on black billowy seas. But they flew
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  Speaker 9: to my breast, and I rocked them to rest, while
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  Speaker 9: the trembling vines clustered and clung to my knees. But
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  Speaker 9: how soon, said the wood fades the memory of good,
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  Speaker 9: for the forester came with his axe, gleaming bright, and
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  Speaker 9: I fell like a giant, all shorn of his might.
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  Speaker 9: Yet still there must be some sweet mission for me.
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  Speaker 9: For have I not warmed you and cheered you tonight?
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  Speaker 9: So said the wood in the fire to the little
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  Speaker 9: boy that night, the little boy of the golden hair,
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  Speaker 9: as he rocked himself in his little arm chair, when
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  Speaker 9: the blaze was burning bright. Atlanta Constitution, end of Section thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Action fourteen of Birds and All Nature, Volumes six, four,
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  Speaker 3: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 3: The Mississippi w e watt Americans like the boast of
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  Speaker 3: the things of this country that are larger, longer, more
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  Speaker 3: valuable or more wonderful than anything of the kind in
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  Speaker 3: the world. They have resided in school such a number
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  Speaker 3: of statements about the Mississippi River that the great stream
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  Speaker 3: has become one of the essential points of our nation's honor.
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  Speaker 3: You may be able to make the average man believe
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  Speaker 3: that Washington was not always as truthful in his youth
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  Speaker 3: as Weems in the Cherry Tree story tried to make
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  Speaker 3: him that Captain John Smith drew somewhat on his imagination when,
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  Speaker 3: some sixteen years after the expedition into the woods he
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  Speaker 3: told the story of his rescue by Pocahontas that perhaps,
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  Speaker 3: after all, we did not whip the entire British nation
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  Speaker 3: twice in open warfare. But it will be hard to
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  Speaker 3: make any native born American admit that the Mississippi River
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  Speaker 3: is not the longest in the world. He may listen
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  Speaker 3: to your argument in favor of the Nile or the Amazon,
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  Speaker 3: but he will tell you that he still thinks that
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  Speaker 3: if the Mississippi had been measured correctly at first, taking
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  Speaker 3: the source of the Missouri as the source of the Mississippi,
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  Speaker 3: we would have been the possessors of the longest river
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  Speaker 3: on earth. And if that should seem a trifle weak,
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  Speaker 3: he will at once tell you that the Great River
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  Speaker 3: is more won of than all others, because its source
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  Speaker 3: is several hundred feet nearer the center of the Earth
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  Speaker 3: than its mouth. In other words, the river flows uphill.
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  Speaker 3: The curvature of the Earth is not the true arc
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  Speaker 3: of a circle from the equator to the poles. For
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  Speaker 3: the axis of the Earth is shorter than its diameter
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  Speaker 3: at the equator by about twenty six miles. It is
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  Speaker 3: thirteen miles less from the north pole to the center
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  Speaker 3: of the Earth than from any point on the equator
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  Speaker 3: to the center. So the river flows towards the equator
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  Speaker 3: with an apparent fall as estimated from the sea level,
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  Speaker 3: but with an actual rising away from the Earth's center,
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  Speaker 3: just as the sea rises round the shoulder of the Earth.
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  Speaker 3: So the Mississippi is a source of joy and boastful
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  Speaker 3: conversation to every citizen of the air United States. The
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  Speaker 3: Acadian settlers of Nova Scotia, whose praises have been sung
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  Speaker 3: by Longfellow in his Evangeline, were the earliest to reclaim
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  Speaker 3: land from the sea in America, being weaker than those
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  Speaker 3: who used the eggs to fill the giants of the
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  Speaker 3: forest primeval. They were more skillful with the spade. They
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  Speaker 3: took advantage of the extremely high tides of the Bay
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  Speaker 3: of Fundy and its branches, and when the water was low,
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  Speaker 3: threw up embankments which prevented the sea from covering part
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  Speaker 3: of the rich red mud flats before the village of
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  Speaker 3: Grand Pre. At the time of their painful dispersion, they
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  Speaker 3: had secured all the land between the original shore and
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  Speaker 3: the island which stood out in the basin of Minas.
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  Speaker 3: Though they could not take these rich lands with them
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  Speaker 3: in their exile, many of them carried the knowledge of
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  Speaker 3: dyke building down to the lower courses of the Mississippi
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  Speaker 3: and taught the rest of the Americans there how to
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  Speaker 3: get the fat lands of the river bottoms by means
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  Speaker 3: of levies. When General Pakenham gave up his life and
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  Speaker 3: lost a fine British army to General Jackson after the
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  Speaker 3: Treaty of peace had been signed in the War of
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  Speaker 3: eighteen twelve, his right rested on the bank of the Mississippi,
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  Speaker 3: where there was a levee a little over five feet high.
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  Speaker 3: This levee cut off the waters from spreading when the
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  Speaker 3: freshet was on It was sufficient at that time. Extensions
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  Speaker 3: of leavy work cut off more and more of the
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  Speaker 3: bottom lands from the spread of the high waters, till
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  Speaker 3: now nearly four fifths of the area over which the
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  Speaker 3: waters of the June Freshet used to spread are protected
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  Speaker 3: by these structures. The levees are not now the low
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  Speaker 3: banks of earth which once kept the water's back. The
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  Speaker 3: great mass of water that comes from the melting of
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  Speaker 3: snows in the alleghinies and the rockies must either spread
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  Speaker 3: out or pile up, confining within less than a mile
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  Speaker 3: of width. A surplus of water that formerly spread itself
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred miles makes it necessary for the water
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  Speaker 3: to rise and rush forward with great violence. Year by year,
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  Speaker 3: the levees have crept up the sides of the great river,
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  Speaker 3: choking it into narrow walls. Year after year it has
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  Speaker 3: risen in its wrath and burst its bounds to destroy
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  Speaker 3: the cities and plantations which have been fattening in the
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  Speaker 3: mud of its alluvial flats. Every year they lay are
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  Speaker 3: put up higher, and as the works extend to the
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  Speaker 3: northward and more effectually close up the southern places of
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  Speaker 3: spreading out, there is an average increase in the stage
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  Speaker 3: of high water and invelocity of the current. When it
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  Speaker 3: was allowed to wander over great stretches of country, the
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  Speaker 3: water seemed in no hurry to get to the gulf.
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  Speaker 3: But now it goes teering madly through its narrowed banks,
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  Speaker 3: and it has become a question with Congress which will
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  Speaker 3: take much deliberation and experiment, as well as great financial
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  Speaker 3: outlay to solve. It has been proposed that great reservoirs
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  Speaker 3: be constructed in the mountain districts to hold back the
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  Speaker 3: waters that are wasted in their rush to the sea.
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  Speaker 3: If there could be made in the back lands in
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  Speaker 3: northern Wyoming a reservoirir that would hold all the waters
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  Speaker 3: accumulating there during the months of spring, the reservoir would
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  Speaker 3: skim off the top of the Mississippi River two thousand
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  Speaker 3: miles away and save the people there from the perils
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  Speaker 3: that threaten them whenever the water mounts toward the danger point.
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  Speaker 3: It would require a vast artificial lake to hold these waters,
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  Speaker 3: but there are mountain ranges that could be utilized to
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  Speaker 3: form the barriers, and the land taken from profitable grazing
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  Speaker 3: could be paid for with much less expense than the
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  Speaker 3: cost of one inundation of Mississippi bottom lands. When a
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  Speaker 3: levee breaks instead of one vast reservoir, it will probably
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  Speaker 3: be found expedient to lay out a great number of
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  Speaker 3: works for retaining the western waters, as well as others
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  Speaker 3: in the eastern mountains, and some in the beds of
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  Speaker 3: other tributary rivers whose sources are in the great basin between.
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  Speaker 3: If these stores of water could be utilized for irrigation,
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  Speaker 3: it is probable that the works would eventually pay for
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  Speaker 3: themselves in the increase in value of cultivated lands. The
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  Speaker 3: water at present is largely wasted because it rushes past
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  Speaker 3: the lands that kneaded before their distress of drought comes,
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  Speaker 3: and its bulk is fairly spent when they need most
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  Speaker 3: of the water that has passed. Adequate systems of reservoirs
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  Speaker 3: would also prevent largely the wearing way of banks and
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  Speaker 3: the changing of the course of the channel and even
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  Speaker 3: of the river itself, which now sometimes tears away the
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  Speaker 3: foundations of cities, obliterates landmarks, and carries off bodily many
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  Speaker 3: well tilled farms. Navigation could be much improved if the
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  Speaker 3: stages of high water could be moderated. The Kansas farmer
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  Speaker 3: complained that the Missouri River is too thick to drink
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: and too thin to plow. Control of surplus water near
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  Speaker 3: the sources would make this river so moderate that commerce
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  Speaker 3: would move along its surface. Varying moods and shifting sands
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: now prevent navigation on that great river almost completely. The
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  Speaker 3: Chinese have a problem similar to ours. Their government esteems
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  Speaker 3: their Board of Public Works as one of the highest
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  Speaker 3: in their country. This board has charge of the canals
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  Speaker 3: and embankments along the great rivers, but it is a
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  Speaker 3: Chinese board. The huang Hu resembles our great water course
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  Speaker 3: in that it rises in mountains and flows four hundred
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  Speaker 3: of miles through comparatively level country. In its lower courses,
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  Speaker 3: it deposits mud along its way through the great Plain,
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  Speaker 3: so that the people are continually obliged to construct levees
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  Speaker 3: higher and higher, until nature no longer will put up
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  Speaker 3: with such treatment, and the Great Yellow River breaks its
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  Speaker 3: bonds and travels across the country to find a new
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  Speaker 3: outlet at the sea coast. In twenty five hundred years,
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  Speaker 3: it has altered its general course nine times, with terrible
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  Speaker 3: destruction of life and property. Its last great breach occurred
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  Speaker 3: in eighteen eighty seven, when it tore through the Empire
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  Speaker 3: a new channel that caused its waters to reach the
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  Speaker 3: sea through the mouth of the Yangtzek Young, five hundred
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  Speaker 3: miles away from its present mouth. More than a million
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  Speaker 3: lives were lost, and the devastation of the country has
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: never been approximately estimated. The gap torn in its embankment
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: was two thirds of a mile in width. Efforts to
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  Speaker 3: close it were ineffective except in low water, and when
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: it was at last almost accomplished, the Celestials had a
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  Speaker 3: narrow but constantly deepening breach to mend its depth, during
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  Speaker 3: the last days of the work, being so great that
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  Speaker 3: a torrent sixty feet deep fought with gigantic might against
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  Speaker 3: the endeavors of the men. At times, the bed of
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  Speaker 3: this river has actually stood above the level of the
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  Speaker 3: surrounding country, its walls having risen with the rise of
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  Speaker 3: the bed due to the deposit of mud, till it
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  Speaker 3: seemed as if the great river had risen to take
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  Speaker 3: a look over the surrounding plain to sea, where it
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  Speaker 3: could wreak the direst vengeance on those who prevented it
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  Speaker 3: from running unvexed to the sea. We may learn from
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  Speaker 3: the wide experience of the Chinese that there is no
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  Speaker 3: safety for us in merely building higher the walls to
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: restrain the Mississippi. The nation must take hold of the
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: matter with a strong hand. Possibly forty or fifty millions
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: will be necessary to construct the works which will moderate
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  Speaker 3: the floe and distribute its waters to those who kneaded
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  Speaker 3: in their irrigating ditches. Even though it cost thrice the
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 3: sum paid to Spain in settlement of the Philippine question,
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  Speaker 3: the people would more gladly give it. Nothing short of
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  Speaker 3: a great ship canal along the bed of the Mississippi
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  Speaker 3: will satisfy Americans. There is but one objection to the work,
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  Speaker 3: and that is its great expense. But we have recently
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  Speaker 3: seen that the cost of one great inundation along the
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 3: Brass was far more than the figures here named, and
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: no account need be made of the loss of life
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: and the suffering that followed that great disaster. Our great
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 3: river must be controlled, not in the Chinese fashion, which
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  Speaker 3: we know to be merely the storing of wrath against
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: the day of wrath. But it must be done intelligently
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 3: and with patience, with faith in ourselves, and a determination
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  Speaker 3: to prevent the great loss of life, which will be
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: imminent every time there happens to be the coming of
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: a flood from the eastern mountains and another from the
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  Speaker 3: western at the same time. Our great water, when properly
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  Speaker 3: controlled and protected by permanent revetments and masonry, will furnish
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  Speaker 3: the farmers of the great plains and natural outlet to
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 3: the sea for all their produce. This will be monopolized
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 3: by no railway trust, no combination of steamboat men will
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: put the farmer into the hands of corporations seeking to
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 3: rob him of the best part of his crop on
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: the way to market. For there will be docks along
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: every man's waterfront, and the rudest flat boat will always
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 3: rely upon the favoring current to bear its cargo. To
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: the size of independent vessels, plying the seas to the
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: uttermost parts of the Earth. End of section fourteen.
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  Speaker 9: Section fifteen of Birds and All Native Volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 9: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 9: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 9: or to volunteer, please visit librifox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 9: Jill Ingell, Indian Summer With all there comes a time
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  Speaker 9: when summer's wane, when from the sunshine something seems withdrawn
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 9: and pensive shadows Lengthen on the lawn, white bindweed wanders
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 9: lonely in the lane, the one sweet thing that now unwiered,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 9: doth remain. But there is beauty in a tumnal bow,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 9: no less than in dear April's dewy leaves, when with
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 9: its store of golden girdled sheaves, piled strands the wain
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 9: where one time passed the plow and ripened labor reaps
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 9: fulfillment of its vow. Then, though no more the oblivious
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 9: cuckoo calls from land to land, nor longer on the
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 9: spray of yellowing elm, the throstle vaunts his lay, the
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 9: ring dove's mate, as fades the leaf and falls reiterates
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  Speaker 9: its note of love that never palls, though fluttereth still
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  Speaker 9: the soul like lark aloft. There is a quiet in
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 9: the woodland ways, the retrospective hush of vanished days, And
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 9: around garden close and orchard croft, a something in the air,
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 9: celestially soft from hamlet roofs, blue spires of smoke once more,
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 9: as dies the day and mist along the dale and
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 9: widowed evening weeps behind her veil from log replenished ingle,
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  Speaker 9: heavenward sore and lamps are early lit and early latched
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  Speaker 9: the door. Alfred Austin, end of section fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Section sixteen of Birds and All Nature A. Six four
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  Speaker 1: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: Betty B. Section sixteen. The chipmunk Tamias Listerrie CCM. Naturalists,
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  Speaker 1: as well as many ordinary observers, it is said, recognize
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: numerous varieties among the chipmunks of the United States, founded
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: principally on the markings of the fir, for in their
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: habits they are all very similar. Elliott cous describes four
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: varieties found in this country. The American chipmunk hackee or
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: chipping squirrel Tomias Listirie, is distributed all over the United States.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: The face is of a reddish brown tint with darker
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: spots on the forehead and ch The nape of the
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  Speaker 1: neck is ash and gray, the hind quarters reddish brown,
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  Speaker 1: the under surface whitish. There is a dark brown stripe
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  Speaker 1: on the back, a black stripe over the eye, with
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  Speaker 1: white above and below it, and there is a wide
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  Speaker 1: white side streak edged with blackish brown. The upper surface
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  Speaker 1: of the tail is dark brown, the base being grayish yellow,
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  Speaker 1: the tip whitish, and the lower surface a ruddy hue.
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  Speaker 1: This description may seem superfluous in view of our picture
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: of the lively little animal. We think, however, it may
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: induce closer observation of the markings of its fur. The
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: chipmunk is visible at all seasons of the year, but
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: late in summer it may be seen running about, its
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: cheek pouches filled, and its eyes beaming with the satisfaction
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: which its riches afford it. According to the different months
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: in which they mature, it gathers its varied stores. For
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: the most part, considers misting of buckwheat, hazel nuts, maple seeds,
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: and corn. During the winter, it hibernates to some extent,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: but it seems to stand in need of food during
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: the whole winter. Audubon dug up a burrow in January,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: and at the depth of about four feet he found
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: a large nest of leaves and grass, in which were
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: three chipmunks, others seemed to have disappeared in the lateral
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: passages at the approach of the diggers. The animals were
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: overcome with sleep and not very active, but they were
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: not as torpid as true hibernating animals are, and they
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: snapped viciously at the naturalists who tried to handle them.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: The animal does not become torpid before November. It does
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: not leave its subterranean home during the winter, but keeps
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: a passage open. When the snow melts, it begins its
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: activity above ground. The young are born in May, and
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: a second litter usually in August. It is said the
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: male engage in fierce combats during the breeding season. The
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: farmer is not very friendly to this animal, which he
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: regards as a pest. It is hunted extensively. A whole
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: army of enemies is constantly engaged in its pursuit. Boys
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: utilize it to practice the noble sport of hunting. Weasels
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: pursue it both on and under the ground. Cats deem
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: it a prey equally as good as rats and mice,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: and all larger birds of prey carry it off whenever
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: they have a chance. One of these birds has even
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: gained for itself the name of squirrel hawk because of
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: its attacks on the chipmunk. The rattlesnake, according to the
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: observations of Geyer, also follows the poor little creature with
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: a great deal of perseverance. Winter often causes sad havoc
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: among the numerous young brood born in summer, yet they
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: are very plentiful, at least in favorable years, the great
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: fecundity of the fete male making up for the losses.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: Their chief protection against enemies is the difficulty in finding
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: them and the amazing nimbleness they display as they dart
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: between and under hedges like wrens. The beauty and gracefulness
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: of the ground squirrels render them interesting pets, but as
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: they never become quite tame, are timid and addicted to biting,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: and not everything in the cage, they are not very
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: desirable to keep. Their care presents no difficulties, and they
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: thrive well on the simplest diet of grain and fruit.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, is suffering for the second
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: time in its history from a too great increase in
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: its colony of chipmunks. Eighteen years ago, they became such
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: a nuisance that a trapper was employed, and twenty eight
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: thousand small striped pelts were the results of his first
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: year's work. This year, it was noticed that an unusual
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: number were about even in the early spring, when the
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: chipmunks first appear after a winter's sleep. Now it is
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: estimated that there are at least twenty thousand chipmunks in
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: the cemetery, and a great deal of damage has been
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: done through their burrowing habits. They have undermined the gravestones
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: and even in many cases cause graves to sink in
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: when rain water has helped to holler out their burrows.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: The chief enemies of the chipmunks are the florists, for
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: the animal's nip, growing plants at the roots to reach
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: the sap. One Brooklyn florist says that since decoration day
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: he has had to put in two hundred fifty new
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: plants to keep up an original plat of one hundred fifty.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: Florists with contracts to keep graves in condition have entered
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: strong protests, but outside florists who work by the piece
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: have been making money. The eight special policemen on the
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: grounds have been furnished with poisoned nuts, to scatter ab
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: No diminution has yet appeared in the chipmunk army, as
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: they reproduced three or four times a year, and increased
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: fourfold in a season if not checked. But if poison fails,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: another trapper may be called in. Our Animal Friends says
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: that some children were feeding chickens with some stale bread
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: one day, and two or three chipmunks appeared. They wanted
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: the bread too, and every time the children threw a
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: bit down, both chickens and chipmunks would make a rush
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: for it, and nearly always the chipmunks got it. One
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: of them was particularly smart. He gathered all his pieces
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: in a little pile between two stones, and he seemed
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: to keep one eye on them and the other on
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: the lookout for fresh pieces all the time. At last
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: one of the chickens saw the pile and made a
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: run for it, but its owner got there first, and
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: he just sat right down on the top of the
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: heap and chattered. The chicken kept on coming nearer and
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: looking rather as if he would fight for it. So
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: mister chipmunk set straight up, twirled his tail and just
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: seemed to shape with anger. Then another came along to
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: help him, and the two tucked all the pieces into
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: their pockets, and off they darted, leaving the poor chicken
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: looking awfully disappointed. End of Section sixteen.
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  Speaker 10: Section seventeen of Birds and All Nature, Volume six, number four,
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 10: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 10: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 10: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 10: Royce Rosewood, Ted's weather prophet Granville Osborne, flitting along from
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 10: tree to tree, chip and friendly as he can be,
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 10: dancing there about on the tallest slimb, just the likeliest
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 10: place for him, bound to follow, and he seems to
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 10: know very best places I like to go, bob in
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 10: his head and wink in his eye as if he
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 10: knew all about their sky. Then he nods, and he says,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 10: he's plain, goin to rain, going to rain, Little feller
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 10: if a coat all brown, fest of red, where the
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 10: wings come down, primpiness feathers and winkin' at me, mincin'
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 10: around so he can see Tain't no use to hide away.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 10: That's a game, what too can play? Course he finds me.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 10: Then he tries to make believe he's awful. Wise, all
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 10: of a sudden, he says again, going to rain, going
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 10: to rain, climb away up to his nest one day,
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 10: better be careful, I heard him say, ruffled his coat
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 10: and looked so mad. I didn't s'pose he could be
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 10: so bad. Cozius nests that you ever seen, snuggled way
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 10: up by munster green, four eggs, prettiest blue. Didn't touch
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 10: one of them, honest and true. Robin hops up and
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 10: begins to explain, going to rain, Going to rain. End
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 10: of section seventeen. This recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 10: Section eighteen of Birds and All Nature, volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 10: November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 10: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 10: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 10: Royce Rosewood threatened extermination of the First Seal. The First
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 10: Seal herds of the North Pacific breedon Island situated in
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 10: Bering Sea and belonging to the United States and Russia.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 10: On these islands the Pribilof and Komendorski. For nearly one
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 10: hundred years, they have received all necessary protection from a
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 10: tax on land. The existence of the herds, however, demands
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 10: the further protection of the females when they are feeding
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 10: or migrating in the open sea beyond the usual three
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 10: mile limit of territorial jurisdiction. The animals visit certain islands
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 10: in the summer, they breed on them and make them
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 10: their home. The young remain there until driven away by
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 10: the storms of winter. The adults leave the islands in
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 10: summer only to feed, going a distance of one hundred
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 10: to two hundred miles for that purpose. The winter is
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 10: spent by the entire herd in the open sea, their
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 10: migrations extending from one thousand to twenty five hundred miles
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 10: to the southward of their breeding resorts. For many years,
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 10: under both Russian and American control, the herds have, as
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 10: I have said, received absolute protection on land, the killing
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 10: for skins being restricted to the bands of superfluous males.
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 10: As only one male in about thirty is able to
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 10: maintained himself on a rookery or to rear family, about
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 10: twenty nine out of every thirty are necessarily superfluous. The
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 10: survival of one male in one hundred is sufficient for
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 10: all actual needs. Of propagation. The young males on land
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 10: are easily handled and selected as sheep, and no diminuation
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 10: whatever to the increase of the herd has arisen from
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 10: selective land killing. The number of females in the herd
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 10: bearing young each year was in the earlier days about
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 10: six hundred and fifty thousand on the American Islands, and
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 10: perhaps half as many on the Russian The numbers of
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 10: males and of young were together about twice as many more.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 10: This gave an annual total on the American or Pribilof
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 10: Islands about two million animals of all classes, while on
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 10: the Russian or Kommandorski Islands there were about one million.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 10: About eighteen eighty four different persons known as Pelagic sealers,
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 10: chiefly citizens of Canada, but some of them from the
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 10: United States, began to attack the herd in Bearing Sea,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 10: no selective killing was possible. The females were always in
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 10: the numerical majority, as the males had become less numerous
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 10: on account of land killing, and they left the islands
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 10: less frequently in the summer. Each female above two years,
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 10: when taken in the sea, died with her unborn young.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 10: Most of the adult females so taken after July first
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 10: had left their young on the islands, and these orphaned
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 10: pups invariably starve to death. Beginning with this increase of
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 10: pelagic ceiling in eighteen eighty four, the first seal herds
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 10: rapidly declined in numbers. In eighteen ninety seven, there were
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 10: about one hundred and thirty thousand breeding seals on the
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 10: American islands, or about four hundred thousand animals of all classes,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 10: while on the Russian Islands there were less than sixty
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 10: five thousand breeding animals, or less than two hundred thousand
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 10: of all classes. For this great reduction in numbers, there
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 10: is but one cause, a cause plaine self evident and undeniable,
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 10: and that is the slaughter of breeding females at a
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 10: rate largely in excess of the rate of increase. While
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 10: other causes have been assigned, none of them is worthy
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 10: of the slightest consideration in explaining the decline. Even in
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 10: eighteen ninety three, it was evident to all capable of
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 10: forming an opinion that pelagic sealing was the sole known
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 10: cause of the decline of the fur seal herds. It
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 10: was also evident that as an industry, it must be
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 10: self destructive, since if permitted to exist on any scale
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 10: which would make it profitable, it must destroy the herd
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 10: on which it operated. Lessons of the Paris Tribunal of
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 10: Arbitration by President David Starr Jordan in Forum end of
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 10: section eighteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section nineteen of Birds in All Nature, volume six, number four,
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  Speaker 4: November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot org. The
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  Speaker 4: peach William car Higley, Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
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  Speaker 4: The peach Amigdalis persica l. Is one of our most
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 4: important and best known fruits. It is not found in
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 4: the wild state in its present form, though in some
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 4: localities it propagates itself having escaped from cultivation. It is
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 4: probably a native of China, where it has been cultivated
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 4: for centuries, and where it is said to reach its
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 4: greatest perfection. Although Darwin holds that the evidence seems to
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 4: indicate that the wild almond of Persia is the original
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 4: source of the cultivated almond, the peach and the nectarine,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 4: the specific name persica has its origin in the fact
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 4: that peach was obtained from Persia. Both by the Romans
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 4: and the Greeks. Doctor Willis tells us that it was
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 4: introduced into Italy from Persia by the Romans in the
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 4: rain of Claudius Caesar. It was introduced into Great Britain
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 4: during the sixteenth century, and thence brought in sixteen eighty
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 4: by the settlers of Virginia to America. The number of
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 4: varieties seems to be unlimited. Over four hundred have been cataloged,
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 4: though less than one hundred of these are constant. The
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 4: nectarine is considered a variety and closely related to the
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 4: peach and the plum, the apricot, and the cherry. The
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 4: tree itself, when bearing its beautiful, rose colored five petalled flowers,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 4: is highly ornamental. It seldom grows higher than twenty feet
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 4: and its branches form a symmetrical top. One very ornamental
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 4: variety produces double flowers and bright shining leaves, but no fruit.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 4: This valuable plant is generally placed in the family Rosakai,
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 4: which includes many species of economic and ornamental importance. Besides
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 4: those already mentioned here, belong the rose, the strawberry, the raspberry,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 4: the BlackBerry, the apple, the pear, and the quints, as
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 4: well as many beautiful wild forms. The thousand or more
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 4: species usually classed in this family may be readily separated
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 4: into distinct groups, to which are given distinct family names
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 4: by some authorities. Thus the peach, the cherry, the plum,
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 4: and the almond, which resemble each other in regard to
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 4: the structure of their fruits and in their chemical constituents,
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 4: may be placed in a family by themselves. It is
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 4: of interest to note that this luscious fruit was not
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 4: always considered free from noxious qualities. Pliny states that it
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 4: was considered by some that its presence in Egypt was
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 4: due to its introduction there by the Persian king for
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 4: the purpose of poisoning his enemies. The Chinese writings refer
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 4: to the peach as early as the fifth century before Christ,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 4: and it is given the name Tao by Confucius. We
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 4: are also told that in these writings the peach tree
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 4: holds the same place that the Tree of Knowledge does
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 4: in the Sacred Scriptures, and that the golden hesperitus apples
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 4: of the Heathen hold among the Western nations. In Chinese mythology,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 4: a peach tree is mentioned, which was thought to possess
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 4: the power of causing immortality, but which produced its fruit
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 4: but once in a thousand years, and another which grew
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 4: on a mountain and which existed in the early history
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 4: of China, was said to be guarded by a number
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 4: of demons. End of section nine nineteen. This recording is
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  Speaker 4: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Section twenty of Birds in All Nature, volume six, number four,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 8: November 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
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  Speaker 8: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 8: Holly Jensen. The Transformation of the Viceroy basil Archia Archipas
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 8: by rest metcalf Ugg. The ugly worm crush it. Wait
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 8: a moment, listen while I tell you a more excellent
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 8: way notice on what your worm is feeding. Take a
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 8: branch of at home and place it in a bottle
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 8: of water with the worm on it. Then place the
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 8: bottle with its contents in a large box, fastening a
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 8: wire securely over the box to prevent the escape. Then
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 8: watch your worm. Perhaps your worm will be the one
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 8: so often found on the milkweed Asclepius, with black and
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 8: yellow stripes around his body, two little horns in front
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 8: on his head and one at the tail. If you
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 8: keep him well supplied with fresh leaves in a short time,
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 8: he will eat all he wishes, and then, and not
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 8: until then, will he leave the plant on which he
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 8: is feeding and travel many a long journey up and
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 8: down and all around the box, until you may imagine
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 8: he has gone crazy from his confinement. But that is
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 8: not the case. Is you will soon see when he
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 8: finds just the right place, he will remain quite still
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 8: to all appearances, But really he is very busy with
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 8: his bobbin of silk and glue bottle, weaving a small
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 8: silken mat and fastening it very securely to the top
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 8: of the box. And the next thing you will see
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 8: him hanging by his tail from this mat, with his
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 8: head recurved. Watch him, and you will notice that he
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 8: makes little jerky motions. For about twenty four hours he
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 8: remains in that same position, when suddenly he drops down
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 8: his head so that he hangs straight down. Now don't
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 8: leave him for a moment, for very soon after taking
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 8: that position, his black and yellow striped coat begins to
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 8: split open right between those two little black horns on
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 8: the head, as evenly as though cut with a sharp knife.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 8: And a pale, green, globular object comes into sight. With
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 8: a few contortions of the body, the little fellow pushes
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 8: up his old coat, folding each stripe just as Japanese
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 8: lanterns fold up. Then, with a dexterous movement, he fastens
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 8: the end of his beautiful green chrysalis to the mat,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 8: dropping his old clothes so closely compacted together that you
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 8: would hardly recognize them. Now, for two hours he exercises
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 8: by little shrugs until the beautiful green chrysalis hangs, complete
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 8: with gold band and pure gold spots, the most beautiful
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 8: chrysalis I ever saw. Everyone exclaims how beautiful, and wonders
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 8: how an ugly worm could so transform itself into a
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 8: thing of beauty. For ten days we can see no
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 8: change in the looks of this chrysalis. Then it grows
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 8: darker and darker, until you can distinguish the veins on
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 8: the wings of the future butterfly. Then this little fellow,
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  Speaker 8: tired of his close quarters, opens the door of his
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  Speaker 8: beautiful chrysalis and creeps out, clinging fast to the empty nest. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: what tiny wings. But as you watch, they dry out
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  Speaker 8: and lengthen to three times their first size, and you
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  Speaker 8: behold the beautiful large viceroy, orange red wings with black
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 8: lines along the nerveers and a row of white spots
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 8: along the outer margin, his black body beautifully spotted with white.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 8: Or perhaps you may find on the carrots in your
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 8: garden a worm with black and green stripes around his body,
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  Speaker 8: the black stripe being decorated with yellow spots. He will
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  Speaker 8: spin a long silken mat the length of his body,
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  Speaker 8: and to that mat fasten a swing to hang around
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  Speaker 8: his body, so that, by using a little glue at
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  Speaker 8: the end of his body, the swing will hold his
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  Speaker 8: chrysalis in place. This chrysalis is not as beautiful as
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  Speaker 8: the viceroy, but very interesting in its odd shape and
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 8: in its development, and will well repay all the interest
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  Speaker 8: taken in it. Perhaps you may be surprised by not
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 8: seeing a beautiful butterfly emerge from your chrysalis, but instead
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 8: an ignuman fly. For often the achnuman fly deposits her
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 8: egg in the caterpillar's back, and he cannot say her nay.
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  Speaker 8: After he is nicely settled in his chrysalis. This egg
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  Speaker 8: hatches and develops rapidly, needing so much food that nothing
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 8: is left of the poor caterpillar or worm. But the
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 8: fly prospers and soon comes forth full grown from a
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 8: round hole which he makes in the side of the chrysalis.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 8: Each which variety of worm and caterpillar will reward you
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 8: with a different chrysalis or cocoon. If you are not
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 8: sure of your worm, place a box of dirt in
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 8: your box, for some worms go into the dirt to
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 8: make the great change. After watching these changes, you too
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 8: will say, don't crush the worms, for are they not
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  Speaker 8: a symbol of our own death and resurrection when we
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  Speaker 8: shall awake in His glorious likeness. End of section twenty.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain. Recording by Holly Jensen.
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  Speaker 11: Section number twenty one of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 11: number four, November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 11: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 11: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 11: by the story Girl Bird Lore of the Ancient Finns.
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  Speaker 11: In the Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club. H. S.
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  Speaker 11: Warren says that nature and nature worship form the center
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  Speaker 11: of all the life of the ancient Finns, and he
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  Speaker 11: quotes freely from Crawford's translation of the Khalivala, the National
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  Speaker 11: Epic of Finland. He says that as the English language
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  Speaker 11: is not strong and diminutives, and therefore lacks some of
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 11: the most effective means for the expression of affectionate, tender,
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 11: and familiar relations, in this respect, all translations from the
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  Speaker 11: Finnish into English must fall short of the original, the
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  Speaker 11: former being the language of a people who live pre
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  Speaker 11: eminently close to nature and are at home among the
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 11: animals of the wilderness, beasts and birds, winds and woods
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 11: and waters, falling snows, and flying sands. The meter is
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  Speaker 11: like that of Hiawatha, and is the characteristic verse of
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  Speaker 11: the Fins As to birds. The duck lays the mundane egg.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 11: Then the water mother finds a place upon her own
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 11: knees for the duck to rest, where it lays an egg,
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 11: which rolls into the sea. There it breaks and is
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 11: transformed into the earth. From one half the egg, the
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  Speaker 11: lower grows the nether vault of terra. From the upper
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 11: half remaining grows the upper vault of Heaven. From the
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 11: white part come the moonbeams. From the yellow part the sunshine. Vaiinimunen,
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 11: wise and ancient, made himself an axe for chopping, then
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  Speaker 11: began to clear the forest. Then began the trees to level.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 11: Felled the trees of all descriptions, only left the birch
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 11: tree standing for the birds a place of resting, where
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  Speaker 11: might sing the sweet voiced cuckoo, sacred bird in sacred branches.
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 11: Down from heaven came the eagle through the air. He
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 11: came a flying that he might this thing consider, and
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 11: he spake the words that follow. The eagle inquires of
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  Speaker 11: the ancient singer Vnymoyin why he has left the birch
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 11: tree only standing, And, upon being assured it was left
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  Speaker 11: solely for the use of the birds, he commends Vnamoinan's
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  Speaker 11: hero judgment. There is a lesson in forestry for the
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 11: modern day. Vinamoinen old and trusty turned his face and
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 11: looked about him. Lo, there comes a springtime cuckoo, spying
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 11: out the slender birch tree, rests upon it, sweetly singing.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 11: Wherefore is the slender birch tree left unharmed of all
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  Speaker 11: the forest? Spake the ancient Vinymoinin. Therefore I have left
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 11: the birch tree. Left the birch tree only growing home
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  Speaker 11: for thee for joyous singing. Call thou hear, o sweet
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 11: voiced cuckoo. Sing, thou hear from throat of velvet, sing
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  Speaker 11: thou here with voice of silver sing the cuckoo's golden
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 11: flute notes. Call it morning, call it evening. Call within
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  Speaker 11: the hour of noontide, for the better growth of forests,
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 11: for the ripening of the barley, for the richness of
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 11: the northland, for the joy of Kalivala. Thus is the
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  Speaker 11: cuckoo looked upon as a prophetic bird, or perhaps a
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  Speaker 11: mediator between the man and his gods. The woodpecker is
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  Speaker 11: another sacred bird of the Khalivala. In that epic, he
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 11: is not directly named, perhaps because he was so very sacred,
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 11: But the minor wood god Niriki, upon whom Lemonkining calls
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 11: in his distress to help him track the elk, is
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  Speaker 11: like his father Tapio, evidently a survival of Picker the
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  Speaker 11: woodpecker oh Neriki mountain hero, son of Tapio of forests.
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  Speaker 11: Hero with the scarlet headgear notches make along the pathway
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  Speaker 11: landmarks upward on the mountain that the hunter may not wander.
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  Speaker 11: End of section number twenty one. This recording is in
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  Speaker 11: the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Section twenty two of Birds in All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 8: number four, November eighteen ninety nine. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 8: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 8: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 8: by Holly Jensen bird Notes. F. Schuyler Matthews says in
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  Speaker 8: an article in Popular Science that the bird not only
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  Speaker 8: possesses an ear for music, but the mind to produce it.
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 8: As our own conventional conception of music does not at
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 8: all correspond with the wild birds song, we are apt
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  Speaker 8: to consider the latter as foreign to art. If, however,
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  Speaker 8: we choose to consider the bird's conception of music a
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  Speaker 8: lawless one, we must show that he ignores all fundamental principles.
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  Speaker 8: This it is impossible to do, for he invariably resolves
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  Speaker 8: his effort to a perfectly intelligible logical musical idea. His
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  Speaker 8: music is therefore an art, at least in part. There are,
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 8: mister Matthews continues, three woodland singers who will perfectly illustrate
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  Speaker 8: my idea of the underlying principle of bird music. These
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  Speaker 8: are the chickadee, the white throated sparrow, and the hermit thrush.
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  Speaker 8: The chickadee sings, or I may say, calls his mate
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 8: with a perfect musical third, or with two notes separated
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 8: by a complete musical interval. One bird may sing the third,
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 8: another may answer in two descending notes. The remarkable thing
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 8: about this simple example of melody is that the intervals
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 8: between the notes are correctly measured. The result of his
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 8: effort is a combination of tones in perfect accord with
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 8: the law of music, and we are bound to accept
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  Speaker 8: it as an example of melody. The chickadee x two,
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  Speaker 8: it should be remembered, is not a high type of bird.
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  Speaker 8: There are many steps of progression between him and his
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  Speaker 8: more gifted cousins, the thrushes, who are indeed musicians of
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  Speaker 8: a high order. But just here I might as well
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  Speaker 8: call attention to the fact that bird music should not
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  Speaker 8: be overestimated. Its character is fragmentary, and its unconventionality is obvious.
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  Speaker 8: The wild songs of the woods and fields are not
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 8: musical compositions. They are, at best but detached bits of melody,
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  Speaker 8: imperfectly conceived, although often replete with the suggestions of a
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  Speaker 8: complete musical idea. For instance, the white throated sparrow or
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 8: peabody bird sings a perfect musical phrase which we may
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  Speaker 8: harmonize as we please, because it certainly suggests harmony. This
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  Speaker 8: is absolutely no more than the bird sings. The musical intervals,
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  Speaker 8: the pitch, and the length of the note are all
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 8: correctly sustained. In other words, the bird suggests a complete
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  Speaker 8: musical idea, But the little peabody bird seldom attempts a
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  Speaker 8: more difficult or elaborate task. He knows his limitations, and
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  Speaker 8: keeping within these, his attempts are musically both consistent and perfect.
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  Speaker 8: But let us turn our attention to the more gifted
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 8: songster of the northern woods, the hermit thrush. His capacity
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 8: for simple melody, his technical mastery of tone intervals and
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 8: note values, his phrasing, and his brilliancy as a performer
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  Speaker 8: are certainly not exceeded by any vocalist of nature. But
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 8: we must again studiously heed the limitations of the bird's
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  Speaker 8: idea of music. We are still in the presence of
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  Speaker 8: the untamed singer, who is amenable only to his own
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 8: elastic laws. The hermit thrush starts his song with a
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 8: prolonged keynote, often it is A, and then springs upwards
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  Speaker 8: in thirds and fifths with such rapidity and ease that
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  Speaker 8: we are amazed at the accuracy of the performance. Not
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  Speaker 8: only are the tones correctly given, but they are embellished
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 8: with subsidiary or tributary tones. The last note, C, too
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 8: faint to be heard at any distance, is rendered in
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 8: a gyrating suppressed way, impossible to describe, but comparable to
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 8: the soft tones of a harmonicon. This note is an
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  Speaker 8: excellent example of bird lawlessness regarding music. It is quite
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  Speaker 8: antipital in character to the initial note A, with which
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 8: the bird slowly begins, as if desirous to found upon
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  Speaker 8: it a solid musical phrase. But he fails most utterly
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 8: at the last and subsides into an exquisite, elusive compound
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 8: tone I do not know what else to call it,
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 8: which he rounds off in a plaintive pianissimo. He is
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 8: not satisfied. He begins the same strain again, now in
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  Speaker 8: another key, and with no better success in the final
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 8: than in his first effort. So he starts again with
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  Speaker 8: a variation, this time striking an initial note higher than before.
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 8: Then he makes another attempt, but still he seems dissatisfied,
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 8: and after a short rest, three tiny high notes come
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 8: from his throat, full of perfect melody, as simple as
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 8: that of the chickadee. The bird is a transcendentalist, ever
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 8: attempting what he cannot satisfactorily accomplish, but failing only to
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 8: delight us with the strange sweetness of the imperfect performance.
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 8: The highest form of bird music is unquestionably revealed in
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 8: the songs of the thrushes. Here we have not only
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  Speaker 8: a simple fundamental rule amply demonstrated, but also a partially
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  Speaker 8: developed series of musical ideas strung together with a well
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  Speaker 8: chosen relationship. Of course, musically considered, the development of the
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 8: melody and the connection of the phrases are more or
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 8: less imperfect, but that does not matter. The truth is
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 8: the bird is an accomplished singer who cares less for
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 8: conventional rules than he does for the essence or the
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 8: soul of the music. But above all he succeeds in
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 8: inspiring his listener. What more may I ask could be
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  Speaker 8: expected of a musician? School journal end of section twenty two.
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  Speaker 8: This recording is in the public domain. Recording by Holly Jensen.
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 4: Section twenty three of Birds and All Nature, Volume six,
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  Speaker 4: number four, November eighteen ninety nine, recorded for LibriVox dot
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  Speaker 4: Org of a nest Anna R. Henderson, Far away in
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 4: the beautiful land of Brazil, where the birds are all singing,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 4: or valley and hill, two little children walked out neath
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 4: the trees, talking in musical Portuguese. And if you will
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 4: listen to what I say, I'll tell you in English
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 4: their words that day. Sister said, Manuel, often I've heard
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 4: that the trees scarce have room for the nest of
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 4: each bird. For this is the land of these beautiful things,
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 4: and the air seems alive with their songs and their wings.
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 4: And I think that I know of a little bird
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 4: breast which was puzzled and troubled for place for a nest. Now,
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 4: brother said, Lena, don't tell me a word. Let me
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 4: hunt for the nest of this crowded out bird. So
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 4: away they went, roving over hill and through dell. Of
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  Speaker 4: the nests that they found twould take hours to tell.
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 4: There were nests in the orange trees blossoming white. There
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 4: were nests in the coffee trees glossy and bright. There
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 4: were nests in the hedges, the bushes and grass in
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 4: the dark hanging vines. By each roadside and pass there
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 4: were blue eggs and speckled eggs, brown eggs, and white
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 4: and yellow throats, opening the chirpings of fright. Search No longer,
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 4: said Manuel, mid bushes and trees, tis a stranger place,
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 4: sister than any of these. I give up, said Lena,
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 4: a shade on her brow. Come hasten, dear Manuel, I'll
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  Speaker 4: follow you now, Then away to the garden. The little
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  Speaker 4: feet sped, and he showed her the nest in a
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  Speaker 4: big cat had end of section twenty three. This recording
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  Speaker 4: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 12: Section twenty four of Birds and All Nature, Volume six
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  Speaker 12: four November eighteen ninety nine. Recorded for LibriVox dot org.
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  Speaker 12: Common Minerals and Valuable Ores Theodore F. Brookins one Iron Minerals.
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  Speaker 12: Probably many a bright youth, accustomed to wander through the
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  Speaker 12: fields and enjoyment of nature, has been thrilled with pleasurable
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 12: anticipations on finding in some outcrop of crystalline rock a
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 12: mineral substance that glittered as gold. That his anticipations were
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 12: premature should not deter the ambitious youth men far beyond
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 12: him in experience, have been deceived by the same fool's gold.
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  Speaker 12: History records that shiploads of the valueless yellow iron pyrites
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 12: were sent to England by explorers of America on the
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  Speaker 12: supposition that they were accumulating gold. Of the various compounds
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 12: of iron occurring in nature, but four may be considered
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  Speaker 12: as relatively common. Pyrite, magnetite, hematite, and limonite. Pyrite consists
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  Speaker 12: of iron and sulfur. Magnetite, hematite and limonite are oxides
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  Speaker 12: of iron. The first name mineral differs largely from the
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  Speaker 12: others in external appearance as well as in composition. The
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  Speaker 12: others are, however, readily differentiated. We will discuss each of
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  Speaker 12: the four minerals in the order mentioned above. The sulfide
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  Speaker 12: of iron pyrite occurs in many crystaline rocks, but owing
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  Speaker 12: to the difficulty of separating the iron and sulfur, it
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  Speaker 12: is not used as an ore of iron. The mineral
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 12: much resembles an external appearance a yellow ore of copper
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  Speaker 12: called calcopyrite, from which it may be distinguished in that
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 12: it will strike fire with steel. A specimen of pyrites
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  Speaker 12: containing large crystals is an interesting subject of study. These
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  Speaker 12: crystals are cubical in shape, but generally massed together, so
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  Speaker 12: that no a single crystal form may be observed as complete.
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 12: Peculiar striations on the cube faces may often be noted.
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  Speaker 12: The striations of no two adjoining faces are continuous, but
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  Speaker 12: rather a striation of one face bears to that of
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  Speaker 12: another in direction. The relation of the stem of a
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  Speaker 12: printed tea to the top or vice versa, owing to
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  Speaker 12: the affinity of each component element. For oxygen, pyrite often
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  Speaker 12: changes to vitriol or else forms the oxide of iron
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 12: limanite described below. The black oxide of iron. Magnetite occurs
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 12: widely distributed. As its name indicates, it sometimes displays the
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  Speaker 12: properties of a magnet If a fragment of unequal dimensions
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 12: be suspended freely by a string, the longer dimension will
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 12: gradually swing into a north and south direction. The property
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  Speaker 12: possessed by magnetite of attracting other bits of iron appears
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  Speaker 12: to have been known to the ancients, and by them
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  Speaker 12: the name loadstone was applied to the mineral. Since the
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  Speaker 12: power to attract other particles of iron is not apparent
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  Speaker 12: in all specimens of magnetite, we must consider other more
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  Speaker 12: distinguishing characteristics. The ore is very heavy. Particles of it
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 12: are attracted by an artificial magnet, in which regard it
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  Speaker 12: differs from the other minerals we have mentioned. If a
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  Speaker 12: piece of the ore be scratched across the surface of
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  Speaker 12: a harder substance, for example, smoky quartz, a black streak
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  Speaker 12: will be left. Pure magnetic iron ore is intensely black
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 12: with no coloring. In a series of ore beds formerly
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 12: operated by a mining company of Northern New York, four
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  Speaker 12: distinctions of the crude ore were made, two varieties of blue,
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 12: one of black, and one of gray. The blue coloring
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  Speaker 12: is apparently due to the presence of impurities. The black
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 12: ore is evidently magnetite, and the steel gray mineral, failing
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 12: in the characteristic properties of magnetite, finds its class place
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 12: under hematite. Hematite differs from magnetite in representing a higher
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 12: degree of oxidation. It is often found, as indicated above,
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  Speaker 12: in beds distributed in close conjunction with those of magnetite.
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  Speaker 12: This ore is a valuable source of AA iron. Hematite
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 12: commonly occurs in earthy materials as red ochre. Its streak
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 12: is red. All rocks of a reddish or red color
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  Speaker 12: owe the color to this oxide of iron. When hematite
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 12: russ the brownish yellow or yellow iron oxide limonite results.
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 12: The streak of limonite is yellow, thus distinguishing it from hematite.
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  Speaker 12: Disseminated through beds of clay, limonite gives them the characteristic
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  Speaker 12: yellow color. Such clays turn red when heated, since the
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  Speaker 12: water of the limonite is driven off, leaving hematite as
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  Speaker 12: a residue. This is the explanation of the usual coloring
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  Speaker 12: of bricks. Yellow ochre is impure or earthy limonite. End
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  Speaker 12: of section twenty four. This recording is in the public.
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  Speaker 6: Domain Section twenty five of Birds and All Nature, Volume
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  Speaker 6: Sixner four, November eighteen nineteen, Recorded for librovox dot org
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  Speaker 6: by David Lawrence, October two, thy sixteen. When Animals are
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  Speaker 6: Seasick by Phoebe Wescott Humphreys. Anyone who has traveled extensively
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  Speaker 6: has had an opportunity, in some of the ocean voyages
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  Speaker 6: to witness the seasickness of animals, and many queer stories
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  Speaker 6: are told from time to time of their actions. At
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  Speaker 6: such times. Ha Lions become unkinglike monkeys, ape humanity and
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  Speaker 6: dogs are especially woeful, and one realizes that human beings
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  Speaker 6: are not the only ones that suffer from seasickness by
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  Speaker 6: any means. One hears a good deal about pangs that
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  Speaker 6: have filled the men and women with woe, but little
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  Speaker 6: is said of the menageries brought to America every year,
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  Speaker 6: or carried hither and yon in wave tossed boats. Lions
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  Speaker 6: and tigers may be majestic when they have unwavering earth
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  Speaker 6: or rock against their paws, but a sea sick cat
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  Speaker 6: of these tribes is as forlorn as any man ever was,
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  Speaker 6: and doesn't look a bit more kingly than a wet rabbit.
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  Speaker 6: Even its roars and growls have a weeping sound in them,
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  Speaker 6: quite in keeping with the general appearance of the beast.
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  Speaker 6: A monkey is as pitiable an object when it is
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  Speaker 6: seasick as any other beast. So stricken, and its forlorn
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  Speaker 6: facial expression is so human like, and the way it
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  Speaker 6: clasps its paws across its stomach is so natural that
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  Speaker 6: the man who is not seasick necessarily sees something to
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  Speaker 6: laugh at in the misery of the creature. Not so
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  Speaker 6: with the sea sick man. If he sees a sea
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  Speaker 6: sick monkey, he is sure to get very angry, thinking
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  Speaker 6: the poor thing is mocking him. It takes a dog
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  Speaker 6: to be woeful at sea. It has a way of
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  Speaker 6: doubling all up with its tail between its legs and
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  Speaker 6: its head hanging down, that shows a deep seated pain.
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  Speaker 6: To free itself, the dog goes through all sorts of contortions.
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  Speaker 6: It will stretch it on the deck, groan and line,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes rising on its haunches and lifting its head and
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  Speaker 6: howling long and miserably, as some dogs do at the
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  Speaker 6: sound of music. Many other animals show signs of great
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  Speaker 6: distress when on the water in rough weather, and any
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  Speaker 6: animal that is thoroughly seasick will show almost human signs
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  Speaker 6: of distress and appeal for sympathy. Yet one can scarcely
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  Speaker 6: help laughing at their actions, even in the face of
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  Speaker 6: their evident suffering. Ind of Section twenty five. This recording
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  Speaker 6: is in the public domain. End of Birds and All Nature,
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  Speaker 6: Volume six, No. Four, November eighteen, ninety nine.