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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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werve and curve and crook; And your ripples, one by one, Reach each others hands and run Like laughing little children in the sun! Little brook, sing to me, Sing about a bumble-bee That tumbled from a lily-bell and mumbled grumblingly Because he wet the film Of his wings and had to swim. While the water bugs raced round and laughed at him. Little brook, sing a song Of a leaf that sailed along Down the golden braided center of your current swift and strong, And the dragon-fly that lit On the tilting rim of it. And sailed away, and wasnt scared a bit! And sing how oft in glee Came a truant boy like me Who loved to lean and listen to your lilting melody. Till the gurgle and refrain Of your music in his brain Caused a happiness as deep to him as pain! Little brook, laugh and leap! Do not let the dreamer weep; Sing him all the songs of summer till he sink in softest sleep; And then sing soft and low Through his dreams of long ago, Sing back to him the rest he used to know.—■A?io?i. 176
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THE BLOOD-ROOT. WILLIAM KERR HIGLEV,Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Thou first-born of the years delig-ht, Pride of the dewy g-lade.In vernal g-reen and virgin white, Thy vestal robes arrayed.—Keble. THE true lover of flowers, thoughhe may be enraptured by thoseunder cultivation, finds a greatersatisfaction in the study andobservation of those that are developedonly under the influence of Natureslaws. In the field, the forest, and evenin the sea there are plants not onlypleasing to the eye, but that are doublyinteresting because of the wonderfulprovision made for them to assure theirsurvival. Plants, like animals, havetheir enemies, and sometimes it seemsthat, with thoughtful care for its ownprotection, a species will graduallychange its habits, thus conveying asense of danger to its descendants. Many of the peculiarities of plants,that fit them for existence, may bereadily studied by the novice in botanyas he tramps the fields in search ofrecreation. There is nothing

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