XVIII 



ISTRODUCTION. 



bestowing iH'iR'fits on onrsdvcs and on .succecrling gen- 

 erations, or to be recklessly s(|uan(lerc(l like tlie fortune! 

 of the spendthrift, leaving to posterity not even a I 

 memory, but simply a tradition of the noblest race ol| 

 feathered creatures Nature ever produced. Which shall j 

 it be? 



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