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among the fowls, the barking of old Towser, — all 

 take place with regularity, but too rapidly for the 

 young hunter who stands ready with his gun. These 

 evidences of cunning and the constant circumven- 

 tion of man's elaborate schemes for the hawk's de- 

 struction make delightful reading in the study of 

 animal intelligence. There is no danger of chickens 

 becoming extinct, so here's to the success of Cooper's 

 hawk ! 



In little patches, growing where the soil is poor 



Cooper's Hawk. 



and sandy, there flourishes what I have always 

 known as Indian grass. It becomes light straw 

 color in early autumn, and, unless flattened by a 

 heavy fall of snow, sways in the wind and stands up- 

 right, a little, frost-defying tropical jungle. Choosing, 

 appropriately, on each occasion a t>^pical Indian 

 summer day, I have for years been in the habit of 



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