brown with mottled breast, on topmost perch of some tall hickory, re- 

 hearses a sylvan opera, combining earth's best notes with dreams of heaven. 



POTTAWATTAMIE MOTHER AND CHILD. Taber Photo. 



Then follows the leisurely way to rustic home, and breaking a fast that 

 for hours had been masked by an absorbing ethereal banquet. 



Does the reader exclaim, " O that may pass for a fancy sketch, but it 



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