SICKENING WORK. 
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Be this as it may, one thing is certain : that 
much-abused quotation, “ distance lends enchant- 
ment/' etc., never was more appropriately applied 
than to him. 
I think no one of the four persons, who con- 
stituted Mrs. Maxwell’s family at the time of 
which we write, will ever forget her experience 
in putting up one of this brotherhood. 
Of course, when any such specimen appeared, 
her work-table was abandoned for a plank on 
the bank of the creek, under the trees. 
Even at that distance from the house, her 
daughter and sister protested that the odor was 
unendurable ! 
When they saw her half-averted, sick, white 
face, its every muscle speaking of determined 
effort to endure, they stood afar off, and coun- 
selled a hasty burial of the vile bird, even though 
its name and race perished forever from the mem- 
ory of man. 
But they counselled in vain. Too sick to en- 
dure its presence a moment longer, she would 
retreat for a while ; but as soon as it was possible 
to summon the strength and resolution, go to 
work again. It was more than a week, however, 
before she recovered from the effects of such a 
disgusting task enough to be able to eat an 
ordinary meal ; and it was many weeks before the 
mounted bird could be taken from the outer 
