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CHAPTER IX 



FOR THE PUPIL 



The picture of the young buzzard is as true as a photograph; the 

 humped-up drawing of the old bird looks precisely as she did atop 

 her dead tree, watching iny approach. This vulture rarely soars into 

 New England skies ; down South, especially along the coast, the 

 smaller black vulture (Catharista urubu) is found very tame and in 

 great abundance ; while in the far Southwest lives the great condor. 

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tulip poplar : tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera). 

 "For it had bene an auncient tree " ; from Edmund Spenser's " Shep- 

 herd's Calendar." 

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a dozen kinds of cramps : Perhaps you will say I didn't find much 

 in finding the buzzard's nest, and got mostly cramps ! Yes, but I 

 also got the buzzard's nest a thing that I had wanted to see for 

 many years. It was worth seeing, however, for its own sake. 

 Even a buzzard is interesting. See the account of him in " Wild 

 Life Near Home," the chapter called " A Buzzard's Banquet." 



CHAPTER XI 



TO THE TEACHER 



The point of the story is the enthusiasm of the naturalists for their 

 work work that to the uncaring and unknowing seemed not even 

 worth while. But all who do great things do them with all their 

 might. No one can stop to count the cost whose soul is bent on great 

 things. 



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Burlington: in Vermont. 



Concord and Middleboro* : in Massachusetts. 



Zadoc Thompson : a Vermont naturalist. 



D. Henry Thoreau : better known as Henry D. Thoreau ; author 



of " Walden," etc. 



