AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
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birds any farther, for it is unnecessary. We 
know that they faithfully kept their promise, 
and reared and educated the young Bobolinks 
as if they were their own. They taught them 
about the phenomena of the seasons ; showed 
them the best and most approved methods of 
flight, and gave them all the information they 
possessed in relation to the theory of the dif- 
ferent kinds of food, and taught them some- 
thing about the restrictions that men put upon 
the birds in the fields and gardens. They 
succeeded in making them, altogether, the 
best behaved of all the Bobolinks, and we 
were persuaded when we met one last summ^er, 
and saw how he was plagued by a pugnacious 
King Bird, and driven repeatedly from* his 
mate without retaliating, in any way than by 
a cheerful song, that, with their other lessons, 
the Towhees had not neglected to impress upon 
their minds the great truth that had governed 
their own lives, that it is better to resist not 
evil,” but to ‘‘ do good to them that hate you, 
and despitefully use you and persecute you,” 
