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smaller nest with soft grey cobweb? This bird, like number 1, 

 likes shaded lawns as well as woods, but another vireo (No. 3) 

 is much more shy and builds in heavy underbrush in the woods. 

 Its nest is about the size of the red-eyes and is decorated with 

 tufts of white cobweb- 



Isabella McC. Lemmon, Englewood, N. J. 



TANGLES. 



These sentences in some way became well mixed. Can our 

 young folks straighten them out for us ? 



1. The Wood-Thrush is valued by the farmer as an insect- 

 destroyer. 



2. The Whip-poor-will clears out a last year's nest or drills a 

 new one early in the spring. The birds carry the chips some 

 distance from the tree on which they are working. 



3. In May the cheery little Song-Sparrow comes like a gleam 

 of golden sunshine. 



4. The summer yellow bird builds a nest of sticks, plastered 

 together with mud and leaves. 



5. The cheery little Flicker is one of the finest birds whose 

 sweet song greets us in the spring, and he is one of the most 

 constant singers. 



LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH. 



Charleston, S. C. 

 My Dear Joe : 



Your letter has just come, telling of the great snow-drifts you 

 boys tunnelled through, and how your ears were frozen, and it 

 does not seem possible that while you were writing, Bob and I 

 were in the garden here picking roses and jesamine to put in 

 mother's room to surprise her. 



We were so sleepy when we reached Charleston Friday night, 

 that we went straight to bed, but early the next morning Bob 

 and I started for the public markets, for Uncle Jack had told us 

 that there were queer garbage collectors in the city that we would 

 want to see, and that we would be sure of finding them near the 

 markets. 



We walked through the great market, which extends across 

 several blocks. It is open on every side, with booths or stalls 

 for the display of the meat, vegetables and fruit. 



