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THE NORTHERN YELLOW -THRO AT. 



is concealing an amused smile behind that inscrutable black mask, and that 

 he is poking fun at you for awkwardness and stupidity, of which you know 

 you are guilty, as you stumble about through the thicket in the wake of the 



retre a ting 

 mocker. 

 There is no 

 reason able 

 doubt that 

 the bird de- 

 lights in a 

 game of hide- 

 and-seek and 

 that he shows 

 himself from 

 time to time 

 just far 

 enough 

 ahead to 

 keep up the 

 tantalizing 

 play. But if 

 you are wise 

 enough to 

 give it up the 

 bird will 

 pr e s en tly 

 hop out 

 squarely into 

 the open to 

 look at you. 

 Thus life's 

 truest pleas- 

 ures come 

 unsought. 



The Yel- 

 low-throats 

 arrive from 

 the south 

 sometime 

 during the 

 last week in 

 April, and thenceforth wherever there are willow-thickets bordering streams, 



Franklin County. p , wto by fhe Authof 



WHERE YELLOW THROATS PLAY HIDE-AND-SEEK. 



