“As the pine shakes off the snow-flakes
From the midnight of its branches.”
Hiawatha, xix.

[12] By inappreciative asses.

[13] Or the man he quotes—and absorbs.

[14] “Bird Watching,” p. 28.

[15] “Bird Watching,” pp. 9-15.

[16] The nakedness in this case rather; but I use the term conventionally.

[17] Or might be, if any one cared to witness them. Nobody does.

[18] “The Descent of Man,” pp. 41, 42.

[19] “Bird Watching,” p. 284.

[20] December 8, 1904, I think, or thereabouts.