UP THE UIVER 



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Rails fly well enough ^yllen tliey once get started, and 

 go a long way without stopping. But they are laz}^ 

 about it in their sununer homes, where they only flaj) 

 up and then dodge down again to hide ; so they are 





Virginia Rail. 



easy shooting — too easy to be any sport. It's what I 

 call killino', not huntinof." 



'' What a strange note they have," said Rap. "Some- 

 thing like a Woodpecker's call." 



''Yes, but you should hear the noise they make in 

 spring, Avhen tliere are crowds of birds along the river 

 and back in the meadows. The Redwings and Meadow- 



