A Few Feathered Fiends. 



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conspicuously colored, and fly near the ground that 

 we observe them so closely. When, in early autumn, 

 as we are thinking of other things or perhaps en- 

 joying the antics of sparrows on the fence-posts, 





this hawk, with wide-spreading wings noisily flap- 

 ping, rises from the grass, its mere size proves such 

 a novelty that we forget old-time favorites ; and 

 again, the bird suggests wildness and every other 

 condition foreign to our tame summers. This big- 



