NATUKE AND HER HARMONIES. 
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the "country folk" this prodigality of ''the benedictions of 
the covering heavens" and teeming earth. 
But, thanks to our stars, we were not always thus " cribbed, 
cabined, and confined !" That we have a heart still, and some 
few tears left, to be spilt on occasion, we attribute solely to 
the fact that we have lived much abroad in the freedom of 
God's own woods and plains and rivers — that our voice has 
" Awaked the courteous Echo 
To give us answer from her mossy couch," 
in some strange, far places. 
We have met this same master Bobby Linkum masquerading 
in another dress through the savannahs of the pleasant south, 
and such tricks before high Heaven as the gad-about dotli 
play, must make the angels smile — not "weep" — to witness! 
But be comforted, thou of little locomotion ! thou shalt 
know, even at thine own fire-side, this fantastical, as well in 
his remoter wanderings toward the tropics, as in his love- 
making time in thine own meadows — for 
" Audubon ! 
Thou Eaphael of great Nature's Avoods and seas !" 
has been upon his track. He with the 
" Power to bear the untravelled soul 
Through farthest wilds — o'er ocean's stormy roll — 
And to the prisoner of disease bring home 
The homeless bird of ocean's roaring foam !" 
Hear what he caught master Bobby at : 
" During their sojourn in Louisiana, in spring, their song, 
which is extremely interesting, and emitted with a volubility 
bordering on the burlesque, is heard from a whole party at 
the same time ; when, as each individual is, of course, pos- 
sessed of the same musical power as his neiglibors, it becomes 
