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CITIZEN BIRD 



think blue at all, and he too wears fine plumes, on his 

 head, breast, and back. He is the largest bird of our 

 hundred, being quite as tall as you are, Miss Dodo. If 

 you ever see one of these birds standing on the edge of 

 the mill pond, you will never forget it ; for it does not 

 seem like an American bird, but rather like a visitor from 

 strange lands. You may imagine it to be an Egyp- 

 tian princess in disguise, waiting for a barge to come 

 down the river, rowed by black slaves and conveying a 

 prince all glittering Avith jewels, who is bringing a ring 

 cut with mystic letters to break the spell — as such 

 things are managed in fairy tales. 



Blue Heron. 



