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THK OWLS GOOD NIGHT. 



without feeling the impressive effect produced by the 

 introduction of a bird which is held in such detestation 

 by the ignorant, but which naturalists have shown to be 

 not only harmless, but useful. 

 But 

 " The owl, night's herald, shrieks, 'tis very late." 



Venus and Adonis. 



And, therefore, with Boyet, in Loves Labour s Lost (Act 

 iv. Sc. i), we will say : 



" Good night, my good owl." 



