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she confided, “because they would think I was crazy. But I said to John 
the other day, ‘If that isn’t a Mockingbird on our lawn, I'll eat my shirt.’ 
And you know, we spent four months this winter in Florida.” 
When we broached the subject to Professor Riddle and his wife, his 
eyes lighted up at once. “Now, you know,” he said, ‘“‘a crew of men working 
on Wisconsin Bay the other day and one fellow eating from his lunch box 
said he heard a Mockingbird sing. He got up to search. He told the other 
men he couldn’t see it, but he knew he heard a Mockingbird. Of course, 
they all wondered what he was eating in that lunch box.” 
We felt confirmed. “He must have heard our Mockingbird.” 
Professor Riddle smiled. “Before you go home, Betty, you ought to 
go see those people down our road that had 14 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 
land on their lawn at one time.” 
Then the Sivers were right on the Grosbeak count, and it must be 
true about the deer! We drove back to Land’s End, thankful that the 
windows were in good shape. Never again will we regret our deer and 
fox are out of sight, our Pileated Woodpecker hammering far away in the 
wilderness, or our Ruffed Grouse hidden with her young in the dense 
brush. We have our new thermostat and pump, our gardens and window 
boxes, but at Land’s End wildlife and wild beauty are still safe from the 
threat of civilization. 
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