150 Clear Skies and Cloudy. 



borhood for the summer, and if the bluebirds 

 could be taught this fact, a step in the desired 

 direction would be taken. How far what I 

 have been told holds good I do not know from 

 observation, but I am assured that gourds hung 

 well up and so fixed that they have some motion 



when perched upon will be accepted by the 

 bluebirds and purple martens, but sparrows 

 will not go near them, being afraid of that, to 

 them, suspicious swaying motion. It might be 

 thought by the snugly housed mortal that low- 

 lying meadows of a rainy day was drawing very 

 near to the portals of desolation, and so it is, if 



