APPENDIX. 189 
Tur AvutTHor’s PowEr or Memory. — Contin, 
Dec. 15, 1889. 
“TI have had three wonderful horses, all small, — Old 
Pink, Old Dresser Mare, and Lightfoot. I have written 
them up. Have a photograph of Dresser and Lightfoot ; 
and can from memory dictate a good picture of old Pink. 
Dear me! I have omitted ‘Flying Jennie,’ the ‘ most grand- 
est’ of all, of whom you know little. I have her also pho- 
tographed in my eye, and shall have while I dwell ‘here 
below.’ These four animals were not surpassed for rare 
qualities by any that I have known of. Each was a won- 
der. Old Dresser was fifteen years old before she was 
harnessed. You remember her at forty. Think of that!” 
Red-eyed Vireo. (See p. 78.) 
“Their song consists of a few notes, which are warbled again and 
again with little intermission or variety (and which are sometimes inter- 
rupted now and then py a low whistle). This music would be monoto- 
nous were it not for its wonderful cheerfulness, energy, and animation, in 
these qualities resembling the Robin’s song. The ‘Red-eyes’ have also a 
chip, a chatter like a miniature of the Oriole’s scold (and to be heard in 
the séason of courtship), and a peculiarly characteristic querulous note, 
which, like others, cannot be described accurately; whence the advantage 
