Your beauty entrancing slips into the soul.
For the children of one great Kinsman above
Are the myriad forms of nature and we.
Kinsman, Creator, He fits our love
To the star and the flower, the bird and the tree.
—Mrs. Merrill E. Gates.
LONG-BILLED CURLEW.
(Numenius longirostris).
⅓ Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.
THE LONG-BILLED CURLEW.
(Numenius longirostris.)
Each day are heard, and almost every hour,