said of the human species? There are large 
numbers of the human species grossly lacking 
knowledge of creative nature. Regarding nature 
they are intellectually dull and deficient in rea- 
soning capacity. They look to the face of 
nature, and perhaps smile, but give no thought, 
for they have none. For nature’s God they have 
reverence, but for nature — ‘‘ What is nature? ” 
Meadow larks are exceedingly interesting 
birds. They are keen, almost intellectually so, 
as any one can testify who has had occasion to 
match wit against theirs in an effort to discover 
the nest they conceal. Where one succeeds in 
the effort a hundred will fail, and the meadow 
lark’s nest is safe even in the open. When the 
season comes for the arrival of mates and nest- 
building, they drop into the tall grass of the 
meadows, and are quiet and shy until fall, when 
they, their little families with them, rise to the 
trees, and later join others of the species moving 
south. 
Meadow larks are seldom seen in the interior 
of woods. Pastures and meadows are their 
natural resort. In pastures they place their 
nests in the shelter of a tussock of grass; in 
meadows, usually in a depression of the ground, 
often made by hoofs of horse or ox. 
Larks sing their best in the early part of the 
season, early morning and on cloudy days. In 
the early part of the season he comes alone, and 
evidently from choice goes to the topmost branch 
of some sturdy, lone tree in open field to sing 
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