676 Bob IVhite, the Game Bird of America. 



MRS. BOB WHITE AND FAMILY. 



If it is windy and cold, the birds will be found in covert along 

 the sunny lee slopes of the valleys, in the tall rag-weed and briers of 

 the hollows, and on the sunny borders of the woods and hedge-rows. 

 They will not now lie well to the dog, and when flushed will go like 

 bullets into the deepest thickets. Should you hope to prevent this 

 by getting them in between you and the dogs, you may often be 

 mistaken, for in all likelihood they will spring over your head like 

 sparks from under a blacksmith's hammer. The shooting is now 

 difficult, for you will have to turn rapidly on your heel as the bird 

 passes over you, and drop your aim just under him while he is only 

 momentarily in sight. 



If you had a fair day yesterday, but after a long spell of wet 

 weather, and you returned home last night in a clear, cold, quiet air, 

 you may expect to see the sunshine of to-morrow sparkling in the 

 hoar-frost which covers the ground and all the herbage. Tarry at 

 home till the sun has nearly melted the ice off the meadows, for you 



