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abolitionist as Lam. A brave people can 
hardly be expected or desired to forget its 
history, especially when that history has to 
do with sacrifices and heroic deeds. But 
these things, taken together, did no doubt 
prepare me to look upon it as a happy coin- 
cidence when, one morning, I heard the fa- 
miliar ery of the red-headed woodpecker, for 
the first time in Florida, and looked up to 
see him flying the national colors from the 
ridgepole of the State House. I did not 
break out with “Three cheers for the red, 
white, and blue!” I am naturally undemon- 
strative ; but I said to myself that Melaner- 
pes erythrocephalus was a very handsome 
bird. 
