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dom, I have noticed, when by chance they 

 do not fall into the second or third person, 

 are commonly applied to the past rather 

 than the present; a man's past being, in 

 effect, not himself, but another. In morals, 

 as in archery, the target should be set at a 

 fair distance. The Cape May's song is next 

 to nothing, suggestive of the black-poll's, 

 I am told, but I would gladly have bought 

 a ticket to hear it. 



The place might have been made on pur- 

 pose for the use to which it was now put. 

 The pinery, surrounded by hard-wood for- 

 est, was like an island ; and the warblers, 

 for the most past, had no thought of leaving 

 it. Had they been feeding in the hard 

 wood, miles of tall trees, I should have 

 lost them in short order. At the same time, 

 the absence of undergrowth enabled me to 

 move about with all quietness, so that none 

 of them took the least alarm. Not a black- 

 throated green was seen or heard, though 

 yesterday they had been in force both 

 among the pines and along the cliffs. A 

 flock of myrtle warblers were surprisingly 

 late, it seemed to me ; but it was my last 

 sight of them. 



