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Tlili: CASSIX \ IKEt fJ% 



These \'ire<>s luaiii the liall'upeii wnuds at all levels, like iiappy 

 school children; and their childish curiosity is as little to \x resented. If 

 one hears a bird singing in the distance, he need only sit down and wait. 

 Curiosity will get tlic Ix-tter of the bird, and under pretense of chasing 

 bugs it will edge over, singing carelessly now and then, by way of 

 covering the in(|uisilive intent. At dose range the song is stifled, and 

 yon feel for the ensuing inijnients as you do when you have overtaken 

 and passed a bevy of ladies on a lonesome street. (/// han<ls and feet with 

 a most atrocious 

 swagger. Insi)ec- 

 tion tlone. the 

 bird suddenly re 

 sunies the dis 

 carded melody, 

 and yon im 

 longer have ti > 

 "lodk |)leasanl." 



Like most \ i 

 reos, Cassin sings 

 as he works; and. 

 as he works a 

 g<K)d deal of tin 

 time, albeit in 

 leisurely fashion 

 he sings in tiny 

 phrases, separated 

 by unembarrassed 

 intervals of si 

 lence, a sort of 

 s<ililo(|uizing com- 

 mentary on life. 

 \ ery pleasant ti • 

 the ear, — U'cc ci- 



tsiTVCCOO - ISOO T,ik,-n lu-or Taccm.1 PI'Ol" by Da-uson and Dmitt. 



t^soni - f>cli~ivcr - iiRiMrui,. 



/»/;> - sc7i'lrs - f>iti- 



'ivcc - siiccc - f>is(>oor. But our schoollMty does not fully exi)ress himself :;i 



music so staid and delicate. He has at command a rasping, nerve-grating 



war-cry. ])ossibly intended by Nature as a defense against cats, but used. 



as matter of fact, when the bird is in particularly fine spirits. The note 



in question may perhaps be filly likened to the viMb-nt shaking of a pepi)er- 



