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Waaliington. S. (C. 
March 26 ,1919 
Dear Will: 
The season is moving forward at a rapid pace,and the tres© will soon b 
flowering.I see a great many robins on the oourse all of them apparently being 
migrants bound for northern points.I counted thirty two of them, all apparently 
males on one of our greens,and presently pretty muoh all of the flook alighted 
in a big tree,and all began to sing in chorus the effect being very delightful. 
ro he individual songs seemed neither very full nor loud, as if the bunoh were 
rehearsing for what is to come when they reach the breeding grounds.I cannot 
remember ever hearing robins thus singing ina big chorus though migrating bobo¬ 
links habitually do so,and,as in the present case,the males are alone. 
Just at present I am not up to the mark having the dizzy feeling with whie 
you are so well acquainted with.Whether tobacco has anything to do with the onse 
of the trouble I am unable to say,but during the continuance of a spell I no 
longer c a re to smokeand the tobaoco tastes unnaturally.Kelson returned from his 
trip to the west,but I have scarcely seen him since.Between one thing and anothe; 
he manages to find plenty to occupy his time.He was plaraming a trip to Eioui- 
siand and Florida but it is so late that I fancy he has given it up.Shiras was 
going with him on a sort of inspecting tour and for photographic purposes. 
I called on Dorothy the bther day and saw, one of the babies the other one 
being aslerp.Bessie,as they call her,is the very image of her mother with strong 
indications that she is in some way related bo her venerable Grandmother.She is 
is a regular roly $ol.y sort of a little girls, arid looks to be as healthy as pos¬ 
sible. Dor othy is a fine matronly looking wowan,a.nd evidently is putting all the 
