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Nature Portraits 
By A. Radclyffe Duginore. 
PUDDING-WIFE. 
membered of the country boy and girl. The children had seen the bobo- 
link. They had heard the liquid rattle of his song. They had seen the 
nest in the grass. They had watched for the Quaker wife. They had 
seen the purple-flecked eggs. They knew that Robert of Lincoln would 
soon leave them. The poem touched their hearts, and they knew the 
bobolink better. 
With enthusiasm I related the experience to my friend, the teacher of 
natural history in the college. He checked my ardor. He saw only 
PARROT-FISH. 
By A. Radclyffe Dugmore 
