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he comes among us in his migrations, giving 

 wide berth to everything that has the least 

 semblance to man or man's invention, and 

 never letting you get within rifle-shot if his 

 wary sentinels can detect your approach, will 

 feed from your hand after he has been a few 

 hours in your coop ; and his descendants will 

 take a permanent and contented place in your 

 barn-yard. In the spring, when the migra- 

 tory fever stirs within him, he will answer 

 the clarion call of his fellows in the sky and 

 spread wide his wings to join them; but 

 that passes speedily, and he turns back to 

 your dooryard and seems content even with 

 the clipped wing which keeps him there 

 while his brothers and kinsfolk fade away 

 in the cold blue distance. Cases have been 

 H known in which a wounded goose, having 

 been kept all winter, has flown away with a 

 passing flock into the unknown North dur- 

 . ing the spring migration, and returned 

 the next fall to the same barn-yard, 

 bringing her brood with her. And 

 so with the turkeys that range our 

 j& fields ; they are descendants of birds 



