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the total absence of city conveniences, 
plumbing and appurtenances, “The Gar¬ 
dens” was one long succession of surprises. 
And after the children had gone to bed, 
and Mrs. Spence had said “Good night,” 
leaving them to their cigars before an 
open fire roaring up the chimney, he 
capitulated; and Spence’s explanation of 
how the thing had been done left Demarest 
an enthusiastic convert. 
{To be concluded.) 
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fatten themselves on the leaves of the tree. 
In the evening they return, gorged and 
heavy, to the shelter of their encampment. 
Every man who raises fruit trees dreads 
and abhors the tent caterpillars. Not so 
the cuckoo. It regards them as among the 
choicest of earthly pleasures, and, alighting 
in the tree, will eat its fill with a delibera¬ 
tion of manner that well becomes its dig¬ 
nified and somber life. I once saw a 
cuckoo eat nineteen of them in five 
minutes. The feast, so auspiciously begun, 
was, however, brought to a sudden termin¬ 
ation by the arrival of an untimely storm, 
which sent the cuckoo flying in haste to 
some good sheltered spot it knew deep in 
the thicket. I have little doubt, however, 
that it returned later in the day and com¬ 
pleted the destruction of this army of pests. 
There are other birds, too, that you may 
see here in the course of a long summer’s 
day. There is the house wren, which never 
seems to get enough to eat, although it is 
engaged in this pleasurable occupation 
most of the time, unless disturbed by the 
too-near approach of some alarming in¬ 
truder. It is a voracious eater of insects 
and seizes them with such remarkable 
energy that Prof. Beal, of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, tells us 
the birds continually swallow pieces of 
vegetation which they tear away when 
seizing their prey from the leaves of plants 
or the blades of grass. 
The beloved robin, which enjoys worms 
better if judiciously seasoned with the 
oulp of ripening cherries, is seldom very 
fai away. Warblers of many kinds, tan- 
agers and orioles come and go at will, 
while high above all the swifts and swal¬ 
lows course through the sky, gleaning from 
the air the insect life whose vaunted flight 
carries them above the tops of the highest 
trees. 
But when the cool nights of autumn ar¬ 
rive, there comes a great change in the 
bird life of the garden at Montclair. Most 
of the summer visitors are gone; only the 
jay and a few others remain to greet the 
newcomers from the north. Away and 
away to the south they have flown to a 
land less hospitable, to wild birds at least, 
than that which they have known during 
the days of song and nesting; for in the 
Southern States the friendly, understand¬ 
ing eyes that greet them are but few. 
The robin’s nature seems to change en¬ 
tirely once it has reached its winter home. 
There it does not often come on the lawns 
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