A JUNE DAY CHAT 



highly satisfactory to the subject of the experi- 

 ment. He has developed into a handsome, fas- 

 cinating tyrant, and is as playful as a kitten, and 

 as much at home on his owners' heads and shoul- 

 ders as among the trees which he now visits daily ; 

 reserving to himself the right to lodge in the 

 grove-house and to enter his own particular part 

 of the establishment as often during the day as 

 the fancy takes him. He makes his entrance and 

 exit through a window in the ivy-covered tower, 

 and during a daylight stroll in that direction 

 one is almost certain to come upon him. Had 

 not the spirit of dreamy summer indolence taken 

 possession of us that blessed indolence which 

 Dr. Henry Van Dyke classes among the virtues 

 we might even now set out in search of him; 

 but this is a day on which one feels inclined to 

 abide by one's first choice of a resting-nook un- 

 der the trees, satisfied with whatever comes with- 

 in its range. And listen, is it not, as if in gentle 

 expostulation at the very thought of moving, that 

 our sweet little neighbor, the pewee, exclaims: 

 " Leave me-e-e?" 



Do you see the friendly squirrel viewing us 

 from the small stump elevation at the foot of 

 those old willows? Fortune is kind to have sent 



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