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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



NUMERICAL ENIGMA. 



7-11-11-10-2 sat beneath the large 1-2-3-7-5 tree to 5-2-4-3 a book 

 written by 3-7-5-9-10-11. From the woods 11-2-7-5 by some large birds 

 called 1-4-9, 1-7-6- Some 3-2-7-5 little goldfinches sang cheerily as they 

 ate seeds from the 6-2-2-3-13 at her feet. A row of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10- 

 11-12-13 whispered above her head on a branch, and old 3-7-11 the dog 

 5-4-11 up to her 6-4-12-12-10-11-12 his tail. In the field a 6-7-10-11 

 loaded with grain 3-5-4-9-11 by a yoke of red oxen creaked and creaked. 



Suddenly a drop of 5-7-10-11 fell splash, upon the page before her. 

 She 5-7-11 quickly to the house lest the 5-4-10.11 should spoil the 11-2- 

 6 hat she was 6-2-4-5-10-11-12. 



Give five reasons why we should care for and protect the birds. Five 

 reasons from those you give will be given in the December Bird Chats. 



GLEANINGS. 



"Then come those peaceful gorgeous days when the earth seems 

 like a fairy bubble reflecting a thousand tints too lovely to be lost." 



But summer wanes, and autumn approaches. The songsters of the 

 seedtime are silent at the reaping of the harvest. Other minstrels take 

 up the strain. All the songs of the spring and summer appear to be 

 floating, softened and refined in the upper air. The birds, in a new, 

 but less holiday suit, turn their faces southward. The swallows flock 

 and go, silently and unobserved, the thrushes go. Autumn arrives, 

 bringing finches, warblers, sparrows and kinglets from the north- 

 Silently the procession passes. John Burroughs. 



