Chapter II 



OTHER HINTS FOR THE BEGINNER 



TO show from actual experience how 

 close and accessible to a bustling 

 town is the bird life we would know, 

 even upon an entirely un-springlike day, 

 let us proceed by a street in its outskirts 

 this breezy afternoon early in April, start- 

 ing about five o'clock, and walk toward 

 the west until we reach the country, there 

 picking a road to the right at a big, rest- 

 ful-looking house that stands amidst some 

 tall pines, and following it past an old 

 brick-works to the first cross-fence beyond, 

 as we go. 



Here, the rails being down invitingly, 

 let us take to the fields. 



Now, on such a quest as ours, there 

 are two good reasons for doing this just 

 at this cross-fence, in addition to the 

 alluring attitude of the rails. 



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