THE LAUGHING THRUSH. 



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THE LAUGHING THRUSH. 



Sometimes the traveller, as he pursues his way through some of the moun- 

 tainous parts of India, comes on a tract of wooded country. Here, from 



THE LAUGHING THRUSH. 



amono- the foliage, there will, now and then, burst forth a sound so peculiar 

 that it startles and alarms him. Bursts of most unpleasant and shrieking 



