202 THE IDYL OF AN EMPTY LOT. 



doors and along the back fence, and white- 

 throated sparrows showed themselves on the 

 shrubs and small trees which overhung the divi- 

 sion walls. 



But the crowning day of the empty lot came 

 still later, when a fairy -like kinglet hunted over 

 the rosebushes, and that shy woods dweller, the 

 hermit thrush, condescended to show his graceful 

 form on the fence, until the silver tabby, seem- 

 ing to regard their calls as intrusions, took up 

 his station on the cats' highway and I saw the 

 birds on more. 



