



MIGRATIONS: CONTINUED. 

 THE SWALLOW. 



UNDOUBTEDLY the swallow has seized upon 

 our dwellings without ceremony ; she lodges 

 under our windows, under our eaves, in our 

 chimneys. She does not hold us in the slightest 

 fear. 



It might have been said that she trusted 



to her unrivalled wing, had she not placed her nest and her children 

 within our reach. The true reason why she has become the mistress 



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