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boat; but his woi'k was nearly finished; the rookery had 

 been ' ' shot out. ' ' 



Livings in a house-boat hidden somewhere in tules, this 

 degenerate representative of the pioneer trapper seemed 

 far from the workl of millinery adornment, but no stock- 

 broker kept his eye on the " tape " more keenly than he did 

 on the quotation of the New York feathei- nuirket, with 

 which the dealers regularly supplied him, and the moment 

 the figures promised a profit, he took to the field. 



Young Great Blue Herons 



It appeared that for several preceding seasons Grebes' 

 breasts had brought only fifteen cents each, and at this price 

 the birds were not worth killing. Hence their abundance 

 during the visit of Finley and Bohlman. In the meantime, 

 the demands of fashion had advanced the price to fifty cents 

 per breast, a sum sufficient to tempt the hunter, and in a few 

 weeks he had wiped out the increase of years. 



He was a pleasant-eyed old fellow, and there was some 



