OUR BIRDS IN WINTER. 
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low trees ; the young Chick-a-dees sat in a 
low juniper, where they could caress each 
other without all the world seeing them. 
Woodcock, seeing his audience composed, 
commenced to answer their questions in detail. 
Your Woodcock is a quiet, sedate individual, 
rarely permitting himself to get flustered or 
nervous. He would be a good body for a 
president of a bird senate, or chairman of a 
legislative committee, and could always draft 
a long hill. I don’t know but what he was 
distinguished as a public character in Europe, 
since he is often spoken of in connection with 
a diet of worms (^Diet of Wurms'). 
“ I arrived here only last night,” he began, 
and I don’t know but I am over-adventurous 
in coming north so early ; but the genial 
weather awakened in my. breast a most ardent 
longing to return to my pleasant home, and I 
resolved to venture, even if I should be over- 
taken by a cold snap again, as I was once two 
springs ago. You remember, — do you not ? ” 
he asked of Chick, — how my wife and myself 
came here early in March, when the weather 
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