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THE OWL’S GOOD NIGHT. 
without feeling the impressive effect produced by the 
introduction of a bird which is held in such detestation 
by the ignorant, but which naturalists have shown to be 
not only harmless, but useful. 
But— 
“ The owl, night’s herald, shrieks,—’tis very late.” 
Venus and Adonis. 
And, therefore, with Boyet, in Love's Labours Lost (Act 
iv. Sc. i), we will say :•— 
“ Good night, my good owl.” 
