THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. 
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and the second subject in my frontispiece : — I cannot 
but think that an intercourse with these little inno- 
cent warblers is favourable to delicacy of feeling and 
sentiments of humanity ; for I have observed the 
rudest savage softened into benevolence while con- 
templating the interesting manners of these inoffensive 
little creatures." 
