BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
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tinct that the piano may reproduce the 
exact intervals: but Meadow Lark need 
never fear that any instrument will ever 
copy the pure heavenly quality of his 
tones. 
There are boys, ’tis said, who will 
wound birds; but this songster has al¬ 
most won for himself, freedom from the 
cruel stone. 
No one tires of his music—he sings so 
well, and his songs are so many and 
varied. He may sing one set of songs in 
one neighborhood and another set in a 
neighborhood not more than five or ten 
miles away. 
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We love him, too, because he sings in 
every season. 
He brings so much good cheer that he 
is practically unmolested. The birds are, 
therefore, increasing in numbers every 
year. 
Early in April precious love secrets lie 
hidden upon the ground among the mead¬ 
ow grasses. 
