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which I need not re-kindle here, being determined 

 not to make, as I am deeply grieved to see, your 

 pages, Sir, a vehicle for the records of altercation. 

 This beautiful, accurate, animated, and (I may really 

 add) wonderful production, having passed through 

 six editions, each of very numerous impressions, is 

 now universally known and admired. Open the 

 work where ye will, only look at the bird, his 

 attitude, his eye, — is he not alive ? I actually and 

 ardently aver that I have gazed till I have really 

 imagined motion, ay, color ! Look at the Ouzel ; 

 is he not just about to stoop for his hurried evening 

 bustle of alarm ? do ye not (in the still and fine ear 

 of imagination, your mind's ear) keenly catch his 

 rapid clink, clink, clink ? See the alert Wren, with 

 cocked tail, just a-stoop for another Aiming flight, 

 still wriggling, all a song, with her kiss, kiss, kiss 

 churee, kiss, kiss. Look at the clean, peejnng, gli- 

 ding, Willow Warbler, about to pick an insect amid 

 the green silk leaves, with her few and feeble 

 liquid notes. An the Dipper have not a brown 

 amber cast on his back, I'm a peppercorn, yea, a 

 brewer's horse. Do, now, repose your eye on 

 the Kingfisher; an he be not alternately green 

 and blue, there's no purchase in money. Wonder 

 (for, in honest sooth, ye well may,) at the moth- 

 iness of the Owls, the sleekness of the Falcons, 

 the plumpness of the Ducks, the neatness of the 

 Larks, and of the Wagtails. Each bird, too, has 

 Ms character most physiognomically marked. The 



