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THE BROWN THRUSHES: 
be SO kind as to make their adieux to all their 
friends ? ” 
He promised to do so, and when they finally 
commenced their southern flight, he accom- 
panied them a considerable distance, and only 
bade them farewell when the darkness of mid- 
night admonished him that he must return to 
his own home. 
And we will leave them, too, kind reader, 
as their lives, until the next spring, present 
nothing of interest to us ; their wanderings in 
the sunny south being nothing but a succes- 
sion of pleasures and revellings in the luxuries 
which there abound, without any of the cares 
and troubles that are necessary to make the 
existence of all of us perfect. Their children 
followed them after a few weeks, and some of 
them returned in the spring after to the same 
grove where the incidents transpired that we 
have described. There they mated, and reared 
their own offspring, without, however, the 
affliction that their parents experienced. 
Brown and his wife are coming back to Mas- 
