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Unlike any bird of the light . . ... .77 



They peek around the tree-trunks . . . .83 



The sparrow-hawk searching the fences for them 88 

 In October they are building their winter lodges 103 

 The glimpse of Reynard in the moonlight . . 106 

 They probe the lawns most diligently for worms . 117 



Even he loves a listener 118 



She flew across the pasture 121 



Putting things to rights in his house . . . 122 

 A very ordinary New England " corner " . . 124 

 They are the first to return in the spring . . 127 

 Where the dams are hawking for flies . . . 130 



They cut across the rainbow 135 



The barn-swallows fetch the summer . . . 137 

 From the barn to the orchard 138 



Across the road, in an apple-tree, built a pair of 

 redstarts 140 



Gathered half the gray hairs of a dandelion into 

 her beak 143 



In the tree next to the chebec's was a brood of 

 robins. The crude nest was wedged carelessly 

 into the lowest fork of the tree, so that the cats 

 and roving boys could help themselves without 

 trouble 145 



I soon spied him on the wires of a telegraph-pole 148 



He will come if May comes 151 



Within a few feet of me dropped the lonely fright- 

 ened quail ........ 152 



On they go to a fence-stake 154 



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