26 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



DIAMOND. 



O — A consonant. 

 O O O — A pronoun. 

 O O O O O —A wicked act. 

 O O O O O O O —An insect. 

 OOOOOOOOO —A winter friend. 

 O O O O O O O —A conveyance. 

 O O O O O —A prize. 

 O O O —A number. 

 O — A vowel. 



Russell Adams, 

 St. Johnsburg, Vt. 



ENIGMA. 



Two 16-1-12-13-3-13 named 14-3-17-17-3 and 9-16-7-4-1 went out with 

 their 6-1-2-3-4-7-12 to take a picture of a 10-15-17-16 which 10-1-8 1-9- 

 4-11-13-13 a field 8-6-7-4 by, they stopped to pick some 6-10-3-12-13 

 from the brook near the deserted nest of an 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Goldfinch. 

 As they 4-7-8 through a 17-7-8-3 Miss 9-16-7-4-1 caught her 7-4-2 on a 

 branch of a tree and fell and hurt her 8-11-13-3, this made her 9-10-11- 

 12-13 but they went on and took a snap-shot of some ducks swimming 

 in the old 2-5-16-17 pond. 



gleanings. 



Who has not listened to a mother quail calling her hunted family 

 together when the snow and the night were falling? It is most 

 sweetly, tenderly human, the little mother, standing upon the fence or 

 in the snow of the silent fields, calling softly through the storm until 

 the young ones answer and, one by one, come burring to her out of the 

 dusk, and murmuring. Some of them do not hear. They have been 

 frightened far away. Louder now she whistles; \\liiy-rl-li\ 7c'hir-r-rl-le 

 u'hir-}-)--rl-le! But there is only the faint purr of the falling snow, 

 only darkness and the silent ghostly fields. 



Dallas Lore Sharp, 



( Roof — Meadow. ) 



