



WAGTAILS. 



As we stroll over the pasture lands in summer we 

 ofttimes notice a little bird nimbly running hither and 

 thither round the feeding cattle, occasionally uttering a 

 sharp note, and incessantly jerking its tail with a fan- 

 like motion. As we approach nearer it stops and looks at 

 us suspiciously, and then, uttering a note of alarm, moves 

 in undulating flight for a short distance, and alights, to 

 await our approach, when it again takes wing, to again 



