DREAD DF MAN APPARENT 



from 



a long residence in wilds and solitary places, 

 seldom visited by human beings, during those eight 

 or nine months when it is absent from us, so that 

 man becomes an unknown creature, and injury is 

 suspected. Our native small birds, that reside all 

 the year with us, and see us often, though they 

 may retire at our near approach, do not exhibit 

 such shyness and avoidance as several of our mi- 

 grating birds, The gray flycatcher, and the swal- 

 low tribe, which seek their food, we conclude, all the 

 year near the dwellings of man, where most abun- 

 dantly found, manifest familiarity with us rather 

 than dislike, are accustomed to the sight of hu- 

 man beings, and do not fear them ; but whatever 

 may be the cause that influences the precipitate 

 retreat of certain birds, we note the original man- 

 date, and see that the u fear of us, and the dread 

 of us," are still in operation with many of these 

 little " fowls of the air," that would never receive 

 harm from our hands. The blackcap finishes its 

 feast here with the jargonel pear, when it can meet 

 with it, then leaves us for other fruits and milder 

 climes. 



" And the fear of you, and the dread of you, 

 shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon 

 every fowl of the air, and upon all that moveth 

 upon the earth." This vesture of universal dread, 

 which was to envelope man, though appointed 

 from the beginning of time, has never been re- 



