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exactly like a pool of water surrounded by wild 

 rose leaves; so £ have no doubt that the bird from 

 the same point got the same effect. 



All one season a song sparrow having a broken 

 wing lived in the honeysuckle of the blue finch 

 and among the rose bushes, blackberries, rasp- 

 berries, and wild roses' of the west fence where it 

 extended down to the garage beside the garden, 

 at the Cabin, south. He could hop from the 

 ground to the branches of the bushes and from 

 there make his way higher even to the girder of 

 the fence, from which it was possible to reach 

 two different apple trees. By extending his sound 

 wing and spreading his tail he could fly from the 

 low branches of the apple trees to the ground 

 without seriously hurting himself. I watched him 

 with anxiety and always kept crumbs on the 

 ground under the honeysuckle and in a secluded 

 place on the fence girder. He was there through- 

 out the summer and until very late in the fall, 

 his chirp constantly sounding, but his spirit had 

 broken with his wing, for I never heard him sing a 

 note. When the leaves fell and he lost their 

 shelter he was peculiarly exposed. Early in No- 

 vember he disappeared. I think very likely he 

 was the victim of a prowling cat, as these birds 

 or others exactly like them from farther north 

 were with us all winter. 



One morning as I was walking through the woods 

 of our farm after a night of heavy rain my attention 



