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!lan£ula olangula amer icana . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1897. 
June £. 
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progress in the least for he crossed them either by running or 
by a succession of short, quich leaps as nimble as those of a 
small Prog. Poor little waifl It was 
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pathetic to see 
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Mm start off thus alone and unprotected on Ms perilous jour¬ 
ney of life rejoicing, evidently, in his freedom and the novel- 
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ty of Jsts surroundings but quite unconscious of the dangers 
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which lay before Mm. I could only hope that one or the Other 
of the two female Whistlers -which we started from the water 
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near the nest tree would adopt and care for Mm and I was glad 
to see one of them fly bach intor^THe'Torest after we ie^WCT 
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