1 86 BIRD-LAND ECHOES. 



selves in touch with nature, more musical than 

 noisy. Take away the little downy woodpecker from 

 the trees about your house, and before a year has 

 passed you will find that you have lost something 

 that was far more valuable than you thought To 

 the townsman, "more noise than music," perhaps; 

 but to the countryman, dear as the voice of a loved 

 one. 



