GOLDEN-WINGED WOODPECKER. 
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roasting-ears. His visits are indeed rather frequent about this 
time; and the farmer, suspecting what is going on, steals through 
among the rows with his gun, bent on vengeance, and forgetful 
of the benevolent sentiment of the poet; — that 
“ Just as wide of justice he must fall 
Who thinks all made for One, not one for all.” 
But farmers, in general, are not much versed in poetry, and 
pretty well acquainted with the value of corn, from the hard la- 
bour requisite in raising it. 
In rambling through the woods one day, I happened to shoot 
at one of these birds, and wounded him slightly in the wing. 
Finding him in full feather, and seemingly but little hurt, I took 
him home, and put him into a large cage, made of willows, in- 
tending to keep him in my own room, that we might become 
better acquainted. As soon as he found himself inclosed on all 
sides, he lost no time in idle fluttering, but throwing himself 
against the bars of the cage, began instantly to demolish the wil- 
lows, battering them with great vehemence, and uttering a loud 
piteous kind of cackling, similar to that of a hen when she is 
alarmed, and takes to wing. Poor Baron Trenck never laboured 
with more eager diligence at the walls of His prison, than this 
son of the forest in his exertions for liberty; and he exercised his 
powerful bill with such force, digging into the sticks, seizing 
and shaking them so from side to side, that he soon opened for 
himself a passage; and though I repeatedly repaired the breach, 
and barricadoed every opening in the best manner I could, yet 
on my return into the room, I always found him at large, climb- 
ing up the chairs, or running about the floor, where, from the 
dexterity of his motions, moving backwards, forwards, and side- 
wise, with the same facility, it became difficult to get hold of 
him again. Having placed him in a strong wire cage, he seemed 
to give up all hopes of making his escape, and soon became very 
tapre; fed on young ears of Indian corn; refused apples, but ate 
the berries of the sour gum greedily, small winter grapes, and 
several other kinds of berries; exercised himself frequently in 
