166 WITH THE SEA-LOVERS 



my search I have found but two good places 

 for study near houses, and therefore under 

 the eye of man. One, the home of a fellow 

 bird-student where a piece of woods was pro- 

 tected from trespassers, surrounded with stone 

 walls and left untouched just as Nature 

 arranged it. The other an abandoned Maine 

 farm, bought by a Boston bird-lover, who 

 kept her thirty-five acres of pasture with 

 streamlet running through, and overgrown 

 to bushes and all wild growths, absolutely 

 untouched by man, resisting the pleading of 

 neighboring farmers to " burn it over " in 

 the fall, and forbidding shooting or tres- 

 passing of any kind. 



And now having uttered my protest 

 let us change the subject. 



