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of as shy and retiring. Many of these I have not 

 found so. They appear to gain confidence from 

 what they see of the door-yard birds, but we should 

 remember that these ' backwoods ' birds have 

 their peculiar needs, and some of them should 

 be placed within their reach. I have touched upon 

 this important subject in detail, elsewhere, and 

 will only add, that the year that has elapsed since 

 that essay was written has only confirmed my 

 views of the matter as there expressed. It is our 

 own fault, whether we live in town or country, if we 

 do not have birds about us, and he who has them 

 not dwells in an abode which, as has been well 

 said, ' is like a meat without seasoning.' " 



" Oh ! dear, I did n't bargain for a lecture," ex- 

 claimed Beatrice, with a most suggestive yawn, but 

 half concealed by her pretty hand ; and then she 

 asked, " What is that ? " pointing to patches of 

 old gold on the near-by meadows. 



"Dodder," I replied, "the golden dodder's 

 tangled net. " 



" Please don't repeat any of your own poetry ; 

 the weather is so warm ; " so I essayed to tell more 

 explicitly the plant's history, but was soon inter- 

 rupted. " Now you 're too prosy," she remarked ; 

 " let us go home." 



How hard it is to please our neighbors. If we 

 describe what is everywhere to be seen in its true 

 colors, the chances are we are charged with ro- 

 mancing ; if we take these critics a-field they say 

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