requiring at other times to range for several hundred 

 miles before it can procure a meal, either for itself or 

 for its young ; the jer-falcon, estimating according to 



the average powers and experiences of animals, may 

 be said to have the hardest lot in the whole king- 

 dom. But even upon this, the grand extreme, as it 

 were, of his works, the Creator has not left himself 



