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THE BROWN THRUSHES: 
note, every thing going on smoothly and satis- 
factorily, the juveniles waxing big and fat, 
and soon assuming the dress which of 
right belonged to them ; but we will pass 
at once to the only disagreeable occurrence 
that marked the first year’s wedded life of the 
Browns. The event came near being a disas- 
trous one to Brown, who was the innocent vic- 
tim of a great mistake, and was made to suffer 
through the malice of a deceitful enemy. It 
was in this wise : — 
In a severe storm of wind and rain, one of 
the young Robins fell from its nest in the 
neighboring cedar, and was found lying on 
the ground, half dead with cold, by a boy who 
chanced to be passing that way ; with a gene- 
rosity highly creditable to him, he looked 
about for its nest, and finding the home of 
Brown Thrush, put the little Robin with the 
four young Thrushes. 
Now it happened that Brown and his mate 
were away for food when this was done, and 
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they knew nothing of the transaction until 
they returned, when what was their astonish- 
