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for the pupil 

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An English sparrow: Make a long and careful study of the 

 sparrows that nest about you. If you live in the country try to 

 drive them away from the bluebird house and the martin-boxes. 

 The author does not advise boys and girls to do any killing, but 

 carefully pulling down a sparrow's nest with eggs in it — if you 

 are sure it is a sparrow's nest — is kindness, he believes, to the 

 other, more useful birds. Yet only yesterday, August 17th, he 

 saw a male sparrow bring moth after moth to its young in a 

 hole in one of the timbers of a bridge from which the author 

 was fishing. It is not easy to say just what our duty is in this 

 matter. 



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clack of a guinea going to roost : The guinea-fowl as it goes to 



roost frequently sets up a clacking that can he heard half a mile 



away. 



an ancient cemetery in the very heart of Boston : The cemetery was 



the historic King's Chapel on Tremont Street, Boston. Some of 



the elm trees have since been cut down. 



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Cubby Hollow: a small pond near the author's boyhood home, 



running, after a half-mile course through the woods, into Lupton's 



Pond, which falls over a dam into the meadows of Cohansey 



Creek. 



on the water : What water is it that surrounds so large a part of 



the City of Boston ? 



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the shuttered buildings : Along some of the streets, especially in 



the wholesale district, the heavy iron shutters, closed against the 



high walls of the buildings, give the deserted streets a solemn, 



almost a forbidding aspect. 



facing the wind : like an anchored boat, offering the least possible 



resistance to the storm. 



out of doors lies very close about you, as you hurry down a crowded 



city street : Opportunities for watching the wild things, for seeing 



and hearing the things of nature, cannot be denied you even in 



the heart of the city, if you have an eye for such things. Read 



Bradford Torrey's " Birds on Boston Common," or the author's 



