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these merry and innocent types of beauty. If there 

 is, on earth, one miscreant that deserves scourging 

 more than another, it is the shameless scamp who is 

 so often seen prowling through fields and woods, with 

 loaded gun, intent on the destruction of these harmless 

 and useful friends of man, that aid in protecting his 

 cereal treasures, while they embellish with their pres- 

 ence his groves and orchards, and fill the air with the 

 music of their artless notes. 



