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among the fowls, the barking of old Towser, all 

 take place with regularity, but too rapidly for the 

 young hunter who stands ready with his gun. These 

 evidences of cunning and the constant circumven- 

 tion of man's elaborate schemes for the hawk's de- 

 struction make delightful reading in the study of 

 animal intelligence. There is no danger of chickens 

 becoming extinct, so here's to the success of Cooper's 

 hawk ! 



In little patches, growing where the soil is poor 



Cooper's Hawk. 



and sandy, there flourishes what I have always 

 known as Indian grass. It becomes light straw 

 color in early autumn, and, unless flattened by a 

 heavy fall of snow, sways in the wind and stands up- 

 right, a little, frost-defying tropical jungle. Choosing, 

 appropriately, on each occasion a typical Indian 

 summer day, I have for years been in the habit of 



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