LIFE AMONG THE BIRDS. 
THE BROWN THRUSHES, AND THEIR 
FIRST YEAR’S MARRIED LIFE. 
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CHAPTER 1. 
B rown thrush, Esq., returned to his 
summer home in Massachusetts, early 
in May. He had spent a very pleasant win- 
ter in the South, living in the midst of plenty, 
with many of the neighbors at home that he 
knew while there ; and as he had had nothing 
to worry him, or give him trouble, he came 
back fat, cheerful, and with a gay attire, that 
showed no signs of wear, but seemed fresh 
and neat as if just put on. Immediately on 
his return, he visited the scenes of his child- 
hood, or rather chickhood, and searched for 
the nest in which he had been reared, but 
found that the storms of winter had torn it 
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