The Wit of the Wild 



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sented in his spirited but erroneous picture of 

 the brown thrashers defending their home in a 

 bush. 



When all these dangers are thus passed in 

 review, one begins to understand how perilous 

 an experience is a bird's attempt at domestic 

 life, and how needful are all possible circum- 

 stances and qualities guarding and favoring it. 



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