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Vol. K. 



APRIL, J90J. 



The beautiful is as useful as the useixil. — Victor H^^o, 



No. 4. 



AND, 



NATURE 



CONTENTS. 



APRIL (Helen Hoot Jackson) [Sonnet] .. . . 



APRIL (Bernard Malcolm Ramsay) [Poem] 



THE CURASSOW [Illustrated] 



SOME NOTABLE NESTS (Elizabeth Reed Brownell) 



THE BLACKBIRD'S SONG (Walter Thornfaury) [Poem] 



A GOLDEN EAGLE (Charles Elmer Jenney) 



THE HARLEQUIN DUCK [Illustration] . 



AN ORCHARD BIRD-WAY (Alberta A. Field) 



THE CANADA GROUSE (Seth MindweU) [Illustration] 



DO PLANTS HAVE INSTINCT? (Rowland Watts) . 



THE DOVEKIE [Illustration] 



THE SONG SPARROWS APPEAL (George Bancroft Griffith) 

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THE BEAVER [Illustration] 



PAU-PUK-KEEWIS AND THE BEAVERS (Henry Wadsworth 



Longfellow) [Poem] ..... 



SNAILS OF THE OCEAN (Frank Collins Baker) [lUustration] 

 THE LEMON (Charles S. Raddin) [lUustration] 

 TWO WRENS (Nelly Hart Woodworth) .... 

 WHEN SPRING COMES (George Gee) [Poem] 

 CUBEBS (Albert Schneider) [Illustration] . . . . 



A TREE-TOP TOWN (Austin Arnold McCausIand) [Poem] 



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