A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 9
... beauty , friendship , and home ! When a young person is affected with grief , he seldom fails , if endowed with a sensitive mind , to listen to the birds as sympathizers in his affliction . Through them the deities of the grove seem to ...
... beauty , friendship , and home ! When a young person is affected with grief , he seldom fails , if endowed with a sensitive mind , to listen to the birds as sympathizers in his affliction . Through them the deities of the grove seem to ...
Page 18
... beauty and with- out song . He is despised even by epicures , because his weight of flesh is not worth a charge of powder and shot . Though he is contemptuously styled the " Chipping - Spar- row , " on account of his shrill note , this ...
... beauty and with- out song . He is despised even by epicures , because his weight of flesh is not worth a charge of powder and shot . Though he is contemptuously styled the " Chipping - Spar- row , " on account of his shrill note , this ...
Page 19
... name . It is unsurpassed in neat- ness and beauty by the nest of any other bird . The eggs are four in number , of a pale blue with dark spots . THE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH . During all the pleasant days of BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD . 19.
... name . It is unsurpassed in neat- ness and beauty by the nest of any other bird . The eggs are four in number , of a pale blue with dark spots . THE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH . During all the pleasant days of BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD . 19.
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... southern slopes of the hills , the north - wind is not tempered by their beauty nor beguiled by the songs of the early birds . - - April the morning of the year , as 3 APRIL . 33 two reflections, the one that deceives is better than ...
... southern slopes of the hills , the north - wind is not tempered by their beauty nor beguiled by the songs of the early birds . - - April the morning of the year , as 3 APRIL . 33 two reflections, the one that deceives is better than ...
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... beauty springs up in the place of desolation . The bee rebuilds his honeyed masonry , the swelling buds redden in the maples , and every spray of the forest and orchard is brightened with a peculiar gloss that gives character to the ...
... beauty springs up in the place of desolation . The bee rebuilds his honeyed masonry , the swelling buds redden in the maples , and every spray of the forest and orchard is brightened with a peculiar gloss that gives character to the ...
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