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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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es;Through briery wastes where wild birds dwell,Deep in the shade of some rocky dell; Where the pennyroyal and mint smell sweet,And the blackberry ripens in cool and heat;Down the winding path by the rippling rill.By the old-time creek, by the dear old mill; By the vine-clad fence, in the alders shadeWhere woodchucks and merry squirrels invade;Through spreading fields of daisies bright,Where butterflies roam from morn till night; Past upland and hollow whence scents are blownOf clover blossoms and flowers well known;Over swamp and marshland where red-wings sing.While in flag and tussock their nest they swing; Through ancient orchards, oer meadow^s green.Where roses and buttercups girt the stream;Away through the woodlands emerald shadeBy sparkling springs, through fern-clad glade, By old quarry ponds where memories cling And gay swallows circle on tireless wing; From dawns early light till twilights gloaming, With scenes ever changing, theres pleasure in roaming. —Berton Mercer. 222
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THE HORSE. (Equus caballus.) There are many objects which are socommonly seen that we deceive our-selves by thinking we know much aboutthem, and yet should we make a specialstudy of these same objects, often wewould find ourselves woefully ignorant inregard to some of their most distinguish-ing characteristics. Every day of our lives we see Horses.These frequently move with exquisitegrace and beauty, stepping daintily andproudly as if hardly deigning to remainon earth, but seeming just ready to riseand fly as did the fabled winged horsePegasus. With rapidly moving feet The landscape speeds far away behindLike an ocean driven before the wind, and we look on only to admire and won-der. And yet how comparatively few ofthose who watch the fascinating motionof a rapidly moving Horse know that thebeautiful animal is running on only onetoe, for that indeed is all it possesses foreach foot. The foot proper extends ashigh as the apparent knee. This is inreality the wrist or ankle, and the appa

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