existence as to that of the birds 

 of passage. 



Where they come from, we 

 do not know, or whither they 

 journey when they go away, 

 the little brown visitors that 

 come each October to the trees 

 in the pine forest Their an- 

 nual presence here is but a 

 fresh token to the wise people of 

 this world that the ways of 

 Nature, provident for her chil- 

 dren, are past the understand- 

 ing of man. 



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