New Walks in Old Ways 



martin to maintain almost perfect 

 poise in the face of strong atmospheric 

 pressure is worth thinking about. You 

 can see fish doing the same thing 

 against adverse currents. I should 

 say that this is a useful and altogether 

 admirable power at certain times, but 

 not all of us possess it. There is the 

 pressure constantly felt by a lot of 

 country boys and girls, for instance, 

 to leave the farm, and allow themselves 

 to be carried into towns and cities. 

 There is the lure of the office desk, the 

 smart-clothes shop and bright lights, 

 and some of these brave, wholesome 

 lads and lassies will return some day, 

 worn and broken on the wheels that 

 grind forever inside the walls they have 

 entered with high hopes. 



If you approach too near a well- 

 filled martin house you will soon be 

 warned away. The parent birds will 

 wheel and circle closely around you, 

 and now and then one that is par- 

 ticularly solicitous will try to make 

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