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wife and offspring to go over to his 

 mothers a dozen blades of grass south, 

 then when out of curiosity he finally 

 cautiously peers out and perceives that 

 he has only a great stupid blundering 

 grasshopper or stupid fly to deal with 

 he immediately becomes valorous and 

 opens the door of his home and stom- 

 ach to the wretched victim and goes 

 rejoicing to his wife, having snatched 

 victory from the very jaws of defeat 

 and proceeds to live and bask in the 

 sunshine of cheap success, false as the 

 promises of a land agent and cuddles 

 himself into a smirking belief that he 

 is a hero. If the reader declines to 

 believe that there is anything human- 

 like in the above described actions I 

 will consider that I have cause to con- 

 gratulate he or she for I clearly per- 

 ceive that the people who have crossed 

 their path in life have been very differ- 

 ent from a few whom I have met in 

 my sojourn. Of the waving palms 

 with stems straight as arrows and 50 

 to 60 f^et up clean as a pipe stem till 

 the first leaf is reached, of the twin- 

 ing vines and hanging moss and the 

 wild lemons and oranges and fruits un- 

 known to any save a Cuban and un- 

 eatable by any save an ostrich or a 

 small boy — of these I have herein not 

 sufficient epace to more than mention. 

 Of the enormous snakes which are in 

 themselves subjects fit to fill several 

 pages of The Museum in describing 

 and of the horrible goggle-eyed land 

 crabs and other spidery crustaceans, 

 on these also I must reluctantly only 

 touch, but I wish to make it quite 

 clear before I close that Cuba bathed 

 as she is in the blood of contending 

 armies and ravaged with contagious 

 diseases, is yet trite ^vith interest for 

 the Natural Historian and well worth 

 an extended collecting trip by the en- 

 thusiastic naturalist even though it 



may be deferred until the bombs have 

 ceased to tear humanity into fertilizer 

 and when the drum head court martial 

 and shooting of war correspondents 

 shall have been as things which have 

 passed away. 



Robert Philip Froelich. 



Birds Of Eastern North America 



BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN. 



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