CARPENTERS, MASONS, AND MINERS 
clear, cool green and blue of the beautiful 
world! It was well worth risking a tumble 
for such freedom. And do any birds enjoy 
freedom as do the swallows? Circling in 
unrivalled flight, now in the sky, now close 
to earth, darting like shadows across the 
blue depths, skimming the lightest spray of a 
wave, soaring, diving, turning with marvel- 
lous swiftness in a wonderful game of “ Fol- 
low the leader,” they are the embodiment of 
JOY. 
At one point in the St. Joe River in Michi- 
gan, the bank of yellow sand rises precipi- 
tously to a height of fifty feet. Here is the 
home of thousands of bank-swallows, little 
holes in the earth so close together and so 
numerous that the surface looks as if it had 
been riddled by artillery. At the foot the 
black water swirls and eddies, and there is 
Said to sbew no bottom, so deep is if.) lo 
reach the nests you must climb up, with the 
sand slipping beneath your feet at each step, 
and with stories of the people who have 
gone down and never come up flitting 
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