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DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



that he is the offspring of the gentleman in charge of 

 the culinary department of a ship; his words are u I am 

 the son of a sea-cook, I am ! So there ! So there ! " 



It is great fun working out these bird songs and then 

 comparing one's notes with those of some enthusiastic 

 fellow like Chapman or Burroughs, and noticing how 



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and where you differ from them. Do not think that you 

 are wrong because your notes do not agree with others. 

 Birds themselves differ in their songs. 



There was an oriole which for five summers lived on 

 the same, street with me, and its song differed more from 

 the ordinary oriole than does the scarlet tanager from 

 the robin. 



