12 love's meixte. 



The rich man, the chaser, 



Tires me to death ; and the adorer of buzzards. 



They talk of covey and hawk, 



And never of arms, nor of love. 



'' Cassador," of course, afterwards becomes " chasseur," 

 and " austor '■ " vautour." But after you have read this, 

 and familiarized your ear with the old word, how differ- 

 ently Milton's phrase will ring to you, — "Those who 

 thought no better of the Living God than of a buzzard 

 idol," — and how literal it becomes, when we think of the 

 actual difference between a member of Parliament in 

 Milton's time, and the Busacador of to-day ; — and all this 

 freshness and value in the reading, observe, come of your 

 keeping the word which great men have used for the 

 bird, instead of lettino; the anatomists blunder out a new 

 one from their Latin dictionaries. 



9. There are not so many nameable varieties, I just now 

 said, of robin as of falcon ; but this is somewhat inaccu- 

 rately stated. Those thirteen birds represented a very 

 large proportion of the entire group of the birds of prey, 

 which in my sevenfold classification I recommended you 

 to call universally, " hawks." The robin is only one of the 

 far o-reater multitude of small birds which live almost 

 indiscriminately on grain or insects, and which I recom- 

 mended you to call generally " sparrows ; " but of the 

 robin itself, there are two important European varieties^ 

 one red-breasted, and the other blue-breasted. 



