MIGRATIONS : CONTINUED. 



THE SWALLOW. 



Undoubtedly the swallow has seized upon 

 our dwellings without ceremony ; she lodges 

 under our windows, under our eaves, in our 

 chimneys. She does not hold us in the slightest 

 fear. 



It might have been said that she trusted 



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to her unrivalled wing, had she not placed her nest and her children 

 within our reach. The true reason why she has become the mistress 



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