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Second Speaker: "High on yon poplar, clad in glossiest green; 

 The orange, black-capped Baltimore is seen, 

 The broad extended boughs still please him best. 



Beneath their bending skirts he hangs his nest." 



— From "The Baltimore Bird. Alexander Wilson. 

 Shows nest, if possible, collected in the autumn. 



All: "The Oriole! the Baltimore Oriole!" 



Third Speaker: "From the first bare clod in the raw, cold spring. 



From the last bare clod, when the fall winds sting, 



The farm-boy hears his brave song ring, 



And work for the time is a pleasant thing." 



— From "The Meadowlark." Hamlin Garland. 



All: "This must be the Meadowlark!" 



Fourth Speaker: "Among the dwellings framed by birds 

 In field or forest with nice care. 

 Is none that with the little wren's 



In snugness may compare." 



— From "The Wren's Xest.'" Wordsworth. 



All: "A Wren!" 



Fifth Speaker: "The blackbirds make the maples ring 



With social cheer and jubilee; 



The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee^ 



— From "]May-day." Emerson. 



All: "Red-winged Blackbird!" 



Sixth Speaker: "In the days of spring migrations, 



Days when warbler hosts move northward, 



To the forests, to the leaf beds, 



Comes the tiny oven builder. 



Daintily the leaves he tiptoes; 



Underneath them builds his oven. 



Arched and framed with last year's oak-leaves, 



Roofed and walled against the raindrops." 



— From "The Oven-bird." Frank Bolles. 



All: "Have you seen a nest of the Oven-Bird?" 



Seventh Speaker: "The bob-o'-link again I hear, 



The merriest bird of all the year. 



As through my open window floats 



The gladsome music of his notes." 



— From "Sunrise." Thomas Hill. 



All: "Bob-o-linkimi! Bob-o-linkumI" 



