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NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA 



The Maryland 

 Yellow-Throat 



EWITH-YOU — 



l)c-\vitli-you — be 

 with-you!" comes 

 the Maryland yel- 

 low-throat's notes 

 we tread along the 

 pasture. We are led 

 - by the bewitching 

 song that seems to 

 come from the 

 grove of willows in 

 the swampy hollow. 

 At last we locate 

 him in the low 

 button bushes, 

 seeking the winged 

 insect morsels as 

 they fly among the 

 leaves. What an 

 inviting home he lives 

 in! The air is made fra- 

 grant with the perfume 

 from the sun-burst blos- 

 soms, which have drawn 

 multitudes of bees and but- 

 terflies. His home is like a 

 charmed world where these 

 innumerable flower suns with 

 their halos are so many little 

 bodies of irresistible attraction. Nearly every orb has its own 

 inhabitants and visitors from without. Besides, the button- 

 bush and willows, whose poetical leaves are like light dashes 



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