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7. Can you tell any changes which take place in song or food at this 

 time? 



8. Do the migrants travel by night or by day? 

 9- Do different families travel together? 



10. Do the birds return to the same nesting places? 



11. Do they return at the same time each year? 



12. What bird travels the greatest distance? 



13. What dangers do they meet? 



Double Beheadings. 



1. Behead twice our most common bird and leave an Indian weapon. 



2. Behead twice a beautifid singer with a long tail and leave a thin slice 

 of meat. 



3. Behead twice a bird with a speckled breast, and leave to move forward 

 with violence. 



4. Behead twice a bird with a red breast and leave an inclosed place for 

 coal, apples, etc. 



5. Behead twice a common game bird which lives in flocks, and leave not 

 well. 



6. Behead twice one of the wagtails and leave a deep, dark hole. 



7. Behead twice a large water bird with a mournful cry — and leave a 

 preposition. 



8. Behead twice a small goose and leave an industrious insect. 



9- Behead twice a sacred bird of ancient Egypt and leave a form of the 

 verb to be. 



10. Behead twice a tropical bird and leave a letter of the alphabet. 



11. Behead twice a tiny member of the flycatcher family and leave very 

 small. 



GLEANINGS. 

 April. 



The swallows circle, the robin calls : 

 The lark's song rises, faints and falls: 

 The peach boughs blush with rosiest bloom ; 

 Like ghosts in the twilight, the pear trees loom- 

 Tlie maples glow, and the daffodils 

 Wear the same hue that the west sky fills ; 

 The moon's young crescent, thin and bright, 

 Shines in the blue of the early night: 

 And over all, through all, April bears 

 A hope that smiles at the winter's fears. 



Sara Andrew Shafer, in The Outlook. 



