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that season yielded nearly one thousand peaches of fine 

 quality. Another noticeable feature was that a large part 

 of the Kitchen-garden, devoted to currants, gooseberries, 

 and raspberries, was entirely protected, both overhead and 

 laterally, by wire-netting, a precaution which the enormous 

 increase of sparrows, and the prevalence of other bud- 

 destroying birds, had rendered necessary. 



Selkirk was reached at 7- 45, and a very pleasant excursion 

 was thus brought to an end without a hitch or untoward 

 incident, the very rain accommodating itself to the convenience 

 of the strangers, by confining itself to the space of time 

 when shelter could be obtained in or near Rodono. 



