. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . Fig. 33.— Wheatear. suit and dons a plain brown and yellowish garb,takes the keynote of a very sober song, a simplechirp uttered at short intervals, and that mostly onthe w7ing; and thus transformed, he would nowherebe taken for the gay bird which so adorned the sum-mer landscape. From clover and song he passes onto gluttony and slaughter; for the next we hear of BOYS AND BIRDS. 211 the bobolinks, they have grown fat and are shotby thousands as the reed-bird of the Delaware to1 the epicures of Philadelphia and is this all: they keep on
. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . Fig. 33.— Wheatear. suit and dons a plain brown and yellowish garb,takes the keynote of a very sober song, a simplechirp uttered at short intervals, and that mostly onthe w7ing; and thus transformed, he would nowherebe taken for the gay bird which so adorned the sum-mer landscape. From clover and song he passes onto gluttony and slaughter; for the next we hear of BOYS AND BIRDS. 211 the bobolinks, they have grown fat and are shotby thousands as the reed-bird of the Delaware to1 the epicures of Philadelphia and is this all: they keep on their southern way,growing more and more obese from gormandizing,until they are known and killed as the rice-bird ofthe southern rice-hYlds, distinguished for nothing butgrossness of appetite and fatness. For making sucha sensual and groveling choice they richly deservethe fate they meet at the hands of the sportsman,and may serve as an apt warning to some otherbipeds who often exercise as little wisdom in theircourse through life. M In
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