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man i hjs Rhode. I never met with more than one 
them t “isliked the martins, and would not permit 
cloeo ? iihoiit his house. This was a penurious, 
said (»ermau, rvho hated them, beeause, as he 
tainl r I pcm." I told him he must oer- 
inistakeii, as I never knew an instance of 
l>e h'd* /reo.'! hut lie replied with coolness, that 
the h'f “ l'> aying near 
stood +i’ g^oinnf 5 c/#/ii 7 >, schiapj'' hy which T under- 
and +1 *1 *^*‘‘'^* ''RR" the suflferers ; 
^Uie charire could not he denied. 
the s** Roeiablo and half domesticated bird arrives in 
frontiers of the United States late in 
Rbout tP’ early in March ; reaches Pennsylvania 
tar nortl* April, and extends his miirrations as 
is fi,. the country round Hudson’s Bay, where he 
accord- disapjiears in Ausust; so, 
a pj. to the doctrine of torpidity, has, consequently, 
ejn'r^ ty lonn- annual nap in those frozen rejiions, of 
chooser *'''‘** Months, under the ice! We, however, 
Rradu*! . •consider him as advancing northerly with the 
t'amilv** ‘'IhMoach of sprin<r, and retiring- with his young 
Soiiial cii'oja^ decline of summer, to a more con- 
’'®®’deuce of this agreeable bird is uni- 
®o inter the hahitation-s of man; who, having 
^dvantaw*l tiis destruction, and deriving considerable 
genenir*^’i "ioll as amnsement, from his company, is 
tnend and protector. Wherever lie comes, 
*®odatioii*^™ I *t’'t“*de *'oti-eat fitted up for his a 
• 1 +1 ‘ iiiUHi H[i lui’ uisaccom- 
'''ooden ^ young, either in the iiroiecting 
^^0 hov ''**^*^’ tile roof, or sign-post, in 
'vantin^*^*™'"/**^*^'^ bluebird ; or, if all these 
last c’ .*** 1,**^ dove-house among the pigeons. In 
lUarter or *t-*’ sometimes takes possession of one 
dare for a n premises, in which not a pigeon 
«onveni<.'ii..:'*^'r*'^'' ‘t^ toot. Some people have large 
't* 6 nts T *'*''Mod for the martins, n ith many apart- 
'■“gula’rlv evel^'^!’ Rsnally fully tenanted, and occupied 
VoL n ^ Rpring ; and, in such places, particular 
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