Ask tlie fowls of tlie air and they shall tell you. 



Job. 



We should go to the ornithologist with a neio feeling, if 

 he could teach us lohat the social birds say luhen they sit in 

 the autumn council talking together in the trees. The ivant 

 of sympathy snakes his record a dull dictionary. His 

 result is a dead bird. The bird is not in its ou7ices and 

 ijiches, but in its relations to nature; and the skin or skel- 

 eton you shoiv me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes 

 or a bottle of gases into tuhich his body has been reduced is 



Dante or Washington. 



Emerson. 



