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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
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MY PET WOOD THRUSHES, 190 
CHAPTER IX. 
BORDER LIFE IN THE WEST AN ADVENTURE NEAR THE MOUTH OF 
THE OHIO RIVER, 214 
CHAPTER X. 
EAGLES AND ART, 235 
CHAPTER XI. 
MY wife's STORY OF HER PET CAT-BIRD " GENERAL BEM," . . . 274 
CHAPTER XII. 
WASHINGTON EAGLE AND FISH-HAWKS, 287 
CHAPTER XIII. 
MY wife's story OF HER PET FINCHES, 307 
CHAPTER XIV. 
OUT OF DOORS WITH NATURE, 318 
CHAPTER XV. 
GHOST-FLOWER AND CHILD A DREAM, 335 
