. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . The Mother Teal and theOverland Route. I GREEN-WINGED Tealhad made her nest in thesedge by one of the grass-edged pools that fleck thesunny slope of the RidingMountain. The passinghalf-breed, driving hiscreaking ox-wagon, saw only a pond with theusual fringe of coarse grass, beyond which was abelt of willow scrub and an old poplar-tree. Butthe little Teal in the rushes, and her neighbors,the Flickers, on the near-by poplar, saw in thenestling pool
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . The Mother Teal and theOverland Route. I GREEN-WINGED Tealhad made her nest in thesedge by one of the grass-edged pools that fleck thesunny slope of the RidingMountain. The passinghalf-breed, driving hiscreaking ox-wagon, saw only a pond with theusual fringe of coarse grass, beyond which was abelt of willow scrub and an old poplar-tree. Butthe little Teal in the rushes, and her neighbors,the Flickers, on the near-by poplar, saw in thenestling pool a kingdom, a perfect paradise, forthis was home. Now was the ripeness of thelove-moon, with the mother-moon at hand in its195
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