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providing for its young. It comes with its beak 

 full, as one would think, of flies, or perhaps of a 

 large green caterpillar ; but it always manages to 

 take up some of my provision also. It has many 

 a fight with another cock that would like to be- 

 come my pensioner also, but which is quite cowed 

 by the other. It has brought its young here now 

 and then, but not so constantly as last year. Its 

 nest is in a small juniper just across the lawn ; I 

 can almost see the nest from the window, and 

 could watch the feeding of the young with an 

 opera glass. One of the young flew straight to 

 me from the est one day, and began to beg for 

 itself. 



In another juniper close by a dead one and 

 therefore just its own colour my little lame hedge- 

 sparrow built her nest very early, and brought up 

 two young ones, coming to my window for food 

 for them very often, and allowing me to go and 

 put back the bough and look at her or her children 

 without being the least discomposed thereby. 



June 10, 1882. 



' Quanta e allegro !' What bird was it, what 

 happy but heartless little bird that called forth 

 these, the almost last words of Garibaldi ? Gari- 

 baldi died with the window of his room wide open, 

 while the sun was setting over Corsica. Before 



