obtains. We have scattered as a pack and re- 

 formed as a community— a friendly mingling of 

 pack and herd and school and flock. 



Nothing like this has happened to any great 

 extent among the birds and beasts, for the new 

 earth has not yet come ; but many interesting 

 individual friendships have been recorded, to 

 which every close observer of the out-of-doors 

 can add a few. 



Allowance must always be made for false 

 seeing and the temperament of the observer. 

 One's interpretations are matters of nature and 

 —of constitution sometimes. The facts I must 

 see with the eyes of my neighbor ; the meaning 

 of the facts I can see with no one's eyes but my 

 own. The following observations I believe are 

 just as you would have made them ; their inter- 

 pretation is my own and may not agree with 

 yours at all. 



One of my friends, a keen and trustworthy 

 naturalist, found recently that a pair of cat- 

 birds were building a nest in the thick tangle of 

 vines just outside her dining-room window. 

 She soon noticed that the pair of robins who 

 had eggs in a neighboring apple-tree showed 

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