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Let me close with the sentiment of Emerson 

 upon the bird : 



" In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt 

 the human superiority by underrating the in- 

 stinct of other animals, but a better discern- 

 ment finds that the difference is only of less 

 and more. Experiment shows that the bird 

 and the dog reason as the hunter does ; that all 

 the animals show the same good sense in their 

 humble walk that the man who is their enemy 

 or friend does, and if it be in smaller measure, 

 yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by 

 freak and folly." 



