GOLD-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
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oil vengeance, and, forgetful of the benevolent 
‘‘"lont of the^poet, that 
Just as wide of ju-^tice he must fall, 
^ Who thinhs all nuitle for one, not one for all. 
^M .^^^rniers, in general, arc not much versed in poetry, 
" '‘11 acipiaintcd with tlie value of eoru, from 
i^iird iaiiour requisite in raising it. 
t) '■auibUng through the woods one day,^ I happened 
f these birds, ' ' 
Fiiidiiijj liiiH tuu leamcr, autl seem- 
laliour requisite i 
j I '■auibling through th ... 
Hij ,'«ot one of these birds, and woiuided him slightly 
'tsi 'ring. Finding him in lull feather, and seem- 
itit ^ little hurt, I took him home, and put him 
I* ^ a large cage, made of willows,^ intending to keep 
iny own room, that we might become better 
Hi 
y|'''.'‘'nted. As soon as he found himself enclosed on 
C'>«s, he lost no time in idle llntteriug, hut, throwing 
O^lf against the bars of the cage, began instantly 
v/''Hiolish the willoivs, battering them vvith great 
(iL J:*^onco, iiml uttoi'ing’ a loud piteous kind of cackling, 
! . to that of a heii when she is alarmed, uud takes 
Sr Poor Baron Trenck never laboured with 
diligence at the walls of his prison, than 
)i(j of the forest in his exertions for liberty ; and 
his powerful bill w ith such fonie, digging 
1ft ■sticks, seining and shaking them so from side 
that he soon opened for himsclt a passage ; 
‘ ' thoiijrh I repeatedly* repaired the breach, and 
• ^ ■ I could, 
-"i. 
J'ftt every opening, in the best luainuu’ 
itj* Ou rjj return into the room, I alvrays found him 
I • xi. _ about the 
moving 
forward, and sidewise, vviu. ...e same 
Ha' it hoeame difficult to get hold ot him again 
to placed him in a strong wire cage, he seemed 
of making his escajie, and soon 
s of Im 
tlm berries of the sour gum 
oliinbiug up the chairs, or riinuing about tt 
W’ " here, from the de.vterity of his inotioii.s, movii 
f»(i|j^‘H'd, forward, and sidewise, vvith the sani 
Hp all hopes 
I'ftft. ® Verv fnn»o r ft 
"'Hy tame ; fed on young ears of Indian corn ; 
K,lil “I'ples, hut ate tlie herr , 
tfi "l.y, small winter grapes, and several other kinds 
'■‘'‘es ; exercised himself frequently in climhing, or 
