ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



PORTIONS of the following account of my 

 two robins, amounting, perhaps, to one- 

 quarter of the text as here given, appeared 

 originally in " Our Animal Friends "; and I 

 take this occasion to thank its courteous 

 editor for kind permission to use the mat- 

 ter in this enlarged form. 



THE AUTHOR. 

 vii 



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