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Identifier: birdsnature1111902chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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ell that he says that onequart of oysters contains about as muchnutriment as one quart of milk. As food,oysters form flesh and make heat andforce in the human body. You can atany time consult the books farther. Finally, said Mrs. Oyster, I wastaken away from my sea home and livedin a place where the water was nearlyfresh for a little while. After floatinghere for a couple of days I was sent tothe market and sold as an extra fineoyster. They called me a blue point. Just then Aunt Jennie shook Willis andasked him why he had not gone to bed.He rubbed his eyes and looked around,surprised to see his oyster lying quietlyin its dish, with no snail nor book insight. The next morning he told Joseph andhis aunt about his dream. After this,said he, when I wish to know thingsw-hich I cannot notice and understand, Iwill ask the books. They know so much.Mrs. Oyster did not get to tell me abouther cousins who make pearls. I mean toconsult some books about them this veryday. LovEDAY Almira Nelson. 66
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tf _^ w m K 0^ m P3 ^ W 0) CDN h m !g ^ k t-i Pi 3 s >1 T. rt Au ii- o o b p. 13< o THE CALIFORNIAN THRASHER. (Harporhynchus redivivus.) One of the finest songsters amongbirds is the CaHfornia Thrasher. Thoughconfined to the coast regions of Califor-nia, it is quite abundant and seems tobear to that locaHty the same relationthat the brown thrush, or thrasher,docs to the thickets further east. Thesong of this Western Thrasher is ex-quisitely sweet, and by some it is con-sidered far superior to that of any of thenumerous songsters that frequent thewoods and brush of the Pacific coast.These lines, written by Mr. Wasson re-garding the song of the brown thrasher,apply equally well to the bird of our il-lustration : O, hark to the brown thrush ! Hear how hesings!Now he pours the dear pain of his gladness!What a gush! And from out what goldensprings!What a rage of how sweet madness ! It is in the morning and in the even-ing that this Thrasher pours forth itssong from some pro

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