THE ROBINS GO A-TRAVELLING 



appreciated their wonderful capacities of 

 heart and brain, you would have 'had to be 

 personally and intimately acquainted with 

 them. 



One word about the conservatory of 

 which you have a glimpse in the photo- 

 graph. 



It is the last of the three large green- 

 houses of which the conservatory consists. 

 The first (see photograph near grape-ar- 

 bor) is a cold grapery, and is kept at a mod- 

 erately low temperature in winter, while in 

 summer its thermometer registers about 

 the average heat in its out-door neighbor- 

 hood. 



A green-house of this kind is, to my 

 way of thinking, one of the very best solu- 

 tions of the wounded or stranded bird ques- 

 tion. There is absolute safety from cats; 

 the little invalid can receive the best atten- 

 tion without learning to lean, entirely on the 

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