THE BOOK OF MIGRATORY BIRDS 189 



many miles on the Sabbath to listen to the rich, full 

 melody of an English lark, which a female emigrant had 

 brought with her from the old country. These rough 

 men begged to be allowed to come, week by week, to hear 

 its song, which reminded them of the old associations of 

 their youth in an English peasant home. 



In the days of the early gold-mining, the Sabbath had 

 no meaning for them, as the extension of the Missionary 

 Society had not reached Australia, but to them the song 

 of this bird was typical of all that made life happy in the 

 old home, across the eleven thousand miles of ocean. 



