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7. Can you tell any changes which take place in song or food at this 

 time ? 



8. Do the migrants travel by night or by day? 



9. Do different families travel together? 



10. Do the birds return to the same nesting places? 



1 1 . Do they return at the same time each year ? 



12. What bird travels the greatest distance? 



13. What dangers do they meet? 



Double Beheadings. 



1. Behead twice our most common bird and leave an Indian weapon. 



2. Behead twice a beautiful singer with a long tail and leave a thin slice 

 of meat. 



S. Behead twice a bird with a speckled breast^ and leave to move forward 

 with violence. 



4. Behead twice a bird with a red breast and leave an inclosed place for 

 coal, apples, etc. 



5. Behead twice a common game bird which lives in flocks, and leave not 

 well. 



6. Behead twice one of the wagtails and leave a deep, dark hole. 



7. Behead twice a large water bird with a mournful cry — and leave a 

 preposition. 



8. Behead twice a small goose and leave an industrious insect. 



9- Behead twice a sacred bird of ancient Egypt and leave a form of the 

 verb to be. 



10. Behead twice a tropical bird and leave a letter of the alphabet. 



11. Behead twice a tiny member of the flycatcher family and leave very 

 small. 



GLEANINGS, 



April. 



The swallows circle, the robin calls : 

 The lark's song rises, faints and falls: 

 The peach boughs blush with rosiest bloom; 

 Like ghosts in the twilight, the pear trees loom- 

 The maples glow, and the daffodils 

 Wear the same hue that the west sky fills ; 

 The moon's young crescent, thin and bright. 

 Shines in the blue of the early night: 

 And over all, through all, April bears 

 A hope that smiles at the winter's fears. 



Sara Andrew Shafer^ in The Outlook. 



