14 Osprey ; or , Egrets and A igrettes. 
one but herself. I am acquainted with several ladies 
who have worn birds in their hats for years, who 
wear them no longer, whatever the fashion may be, 
and who grieve when they remember how, sinning 
from want of thought, they once used such ornaments. 
And as it has been with these, so would it be with 
others, with thousands and tens of thousands, if the 
facts could by any means be clearly brought to their 
knowledge, if they could be brought to reflect on the 
character and the disastrous consequences of this war 
against Nature, which is being waged at their behest, 
for so unworthy a motive. 
