AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
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After the usual exchange of compliments, 
the Golden Crowns flew away, and Towhee and 
his wife entered the thicket, where they passed 
the renlainder of the day in those little inno- 
nocent pastimes that only well-behaved and 
well-regulated birds know any thing about. 
CHAPTER II. 
After leaving the Towhees, the Golden Crowns 
paid a few flying visits to some of their most 
intimate neighbors, exchanging a pleasant 
^‘good-day” with one, making some friendly 
inquiry or suggestion to another, or sympa- 
thizing with another in some trouble or afflic- 
tion ; for the birds have their trials and 
troubles as well as we humans, and they 
sympathize with and help each other more and 
better, I am afraid, than we. 
At length the Golden Crowns arrived at the 
nest of the Swamp Blackbirds, and, as it hap- 
