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'^'' ' VERY one who has had any acquaint- 

 ance with the passenger pigeon, will 

 readily agree with me that he is 

 an exceedingly interesting bird; and I 

 think my readers, whether they are ac- 

 quainted with him or not, will not be slow in 

 coming to the same conclusion, when they 

 have got through with the stories I am going 

 to tell about the family. 



An English musical composer states that he 

 was once at the house of his friend, Mr. Lee, in 

 Cheshire, when a fact came under his observa- 

 tion connected with a pigeon, which, he ac- 

 knowledges, he should be slow in believing, 

 were it related by any one else. A daughter 

 of Mr. Lee was a fine performer on the harpsi- 

 chord. While she was playing an opera of 

 Handel's, and when she came to a song in it 



