A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS 



all the game, and of great numbers of song- 

 birds, has been the result of this peculiar 

 legislation. 



All the wild things are desperately wild. 

 The red squirrel if he hears the report of a 

 gun instantly rushes to a hiding-place. Well 



INDIGO - BIRD. 



he knows the deadly meaning of the report. 

 He has turned day into night, and now har- 

 vests his nut crop in the night-time. I sleep 

 in the open air, and during the harvest season 

 I listen for hours to the sound of dropping 

 nuts which the industrious but wary squirrels 

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