"Bob White, Bob White,
Pease ripe, pease ripe?"
"Not quite, not quite."
These birds are very tame during the spring and fall, and will come into town, on the edges of the streets, and call from roof and door-step without fear, sometimes even mounting into a tree close beside a window and whistling for an hour or two.
On the contrary, it is by the edge of the wood and after the brood is reared, that tree-top birds, like tanagers and cardinals, grow most friendly and fearless. Frequently, when I raised my glasses to look at some plain brown or gray bird, the scarlet of a tanager would flash across the field, and the rose glow of the cardinals appear in the grass. The female cardinal, with her lovely fawn tints and rose linings, and her beautiful voice, equals the male in interest. She is a bird of lively emotions, and being rebuffed by a catbird one day, made the lawn ring with her aggrieved cries, while her mate sought to comfort her most tenderly. They are not graceful on the ground, but they have a stout air of proprietorship that is not unpleasing. Both of our tanagers, the summer and scarlet, the cardinals, and the brilliant orioles, live together very peaceably, nor have I seen any sign of envy, malice, or spite among them. I suppose each one of us has his own Arcadia; mine—and that of these winged neighbors—assuredly lies at the boundary-line between shadowy forest and sunny meadow—at the edge of the wood!
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| 268. | ORES. | CHICAGO: A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER. | ||||
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| SILVER QUARTZ. | NATIVE COPPER. | TIN ORE. | B. H. | |||
| NICKEL PYRITES. | LEAD CRYSTALS. | BLUE CARBONATE COPPER. | ||||
| SPATHIC IRON ORE. | KIDNEY IRON ORE. | ZINC ORE. | NEEDLE IRON ORE. | |||
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