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essential to collect parties in Australian woods to be preferable, but 

 on this point we must make further trial. 



The Garden Cry. 





Heigh - ho ! 



Gilbert White states that owls hoot in B flat. Gardner, in his 

 curious work entitled "Music of Nature," has recorded the notes 

 of many birds, and it will be observed that many strophes which 

 my brother has supplied are identical with those before given by 

 Gardner, which proves the truth of both observers. A garden without 

 birds is like a mansion without inhabitants ; and at all times, and 

 under most conditions of the nervous system, their song inspires a 

 soothing, melancholy joy. 



" Harde is his heart that loveth nought 

 In May, whan all this mirth is wrought." CHAUCER. 



