. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . lips. But he met with another and a different Hawk soonafterward. This one was alive and flitting about inthe branches of a tree over his head. It was verysmall—less than a foot in length. Its beak was veryshort, its legs, wings and tail long; its head wasbluish and its back coppery red; on the tail was abroad, black crossbar. As the bird flew about andbalanced on the boughs, it pumped its tail. Thistold him it was a Hawk, and the colours he remem-bered were th
. Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings . lips. But he met with another and a different Hawk soonafterward. This one was alive and flitting about inthe branches of a tree over his head. It was verysmall—less than a foot in length. Its beak was veryshort, its legs, wings and tail long; its head wasbluish and its back coppery red; on the tail was abroad, black crossbar. As the bird flew about andbalanced on the boughs, it pumped its tail. Thistold him it was a Hawk, and the colours he remem-bered were those of the male Sparrow-hawk, for herehis bird book helped with its rude travesty of Wil-sons drawing of this bird. Yet two other birds hesaw close at hand and drew partly from drawings were like this, and from the pictureon a calendar he learned that one was a Rail;from a drawing in the bird book that the other wasa Bobolink. And these names he never forgot. Hehad his doubts about the sketching at first—itseemed an un-Indian thing to do, until he rememberedthat the Indians painted pictures on their shields and 64. Beginnings of Woodlore on their teepees It was teally the best of all waysfor him to make reliable observation. The bookseller of the town had some new booksin his window about this time. One, a marvellouswork called Poisonous Plants, Yan was eager tosee. It was exposed in the window for a time. Twoof the large plates were visible from the street; onewas Henbane, the other Stramonium. Yan gazed atthem as often as he could. In a week they were gone;but the names and looks were forever engraved onhis memory. Had he made bold to go in and askpermission to see the work, his memory would haveseized most of it in an hour.
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