. In the days of Audubon; a tale of the "protector of birds," . .Audubon wandered over the pine-barrens and under thecoverts of lacing vines, among the live-oaks, where flour-ished the begonias and jessamines, and where almost nightand day the rapturous mocking-birds sang. The wood-cutters or the live-oakers had begun todo their work of opening the hard forests to the cold ofthe north, which has come at last to make roads of freez-ing currents of air to blight the once teeming orangetrees. The lands in many places were so alike as to lead atraveler to go round in a circle. The moon turned theS
. In the days of Audubon; a tale of the "protector of birds," . .Audubon wandered over the pine-barrens and under thecoverts of lacing vines, among the live-oaks, where flour-ished the begonias and jessamines, and where almost nightand day the rapturous mocking-birds sang. The wood-cutters or the live-oakers had begun todo their work of opening the hard forests to the cold ofthe north, which has come at last to make roads of freez-ing currents of air to blight the once teeming orangetrees. The lands in many places were so alike as to lead atraveler to go round in a circle. The moon turned theStygian pools, with their webs of gray moss, into mirror-likeenchantments. Here the herons stood like statues, and thetrumpet-creepers hung their bells from the mosses. The turtle islands, or Tortugas, in the clear purple seas,drew thither his boat. The sea seemed filled with jewelsand the air with wings. The sunsets and sunrises were en-circling splendors. Here he saw the turtles laying theireggs in the sand. Here he met the turtlers, men of humble birth, who.
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