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that as the family had been under the necessity of purchasing 

 each a new suit of clothes to make a respectable Sunday 

 appearance, they thought it most advisable to provide them- 

 selves at once with mourning, in order to avoid the double 

 expense of purchasing again. 



Whether from the baneful influence of the poor owl, or 

 from the impression made upon the woman's own mind by 

 the ominous circumstance, and by being so unanimously con- 

 signed to her grave while yet alive, I will not decide, but 

 within a very short time after this circumstance she really 

 did terminate her mortal career. 



The egg No. '26 belongs to this species. 



