. Birds and nature . only by telegraph and tele-phone poles; 6f the sweet sounds of mu-sical instruments; of things which propscan teli of mining affairs; of the travelsof railroad ties and the tragedies v/hichoccur within their sight; of the waterfolk with whom bridge piles neighbor;of the animals whose hides the evergreenbarks help to tan; of the birds and ani-mals who seek the shelter of these treesand feed upon their seeds and youngbuds; and of beautiful things with whichloving hands deck the gay Christmas treeand the hosts of happy children who loveit most of all trees. Every child who wi
. Birds and nature . only by telegraph and tele-phone poles; 6f the sweet sounds of mu-sical instruments; of things which propscan teli of mining affairs; of the travelsof railroad ties and the tragedies v/hichoccur within their sight; of the waterfolk with whom bridge piles neighbor;of the animals whose hides the evergreenbarks help to tan; of the birds and ani-mals who seek the shelter of these treesand feed upon their seeds and youngbuds; and of beautiful things with whichloving hands deck the gay Christmas treeand the hosts of happy children who loveit most of all trees. Every child who will select a favoritetree and watch it with patient, lovingcare will also find himself helped. Al-though it may not be able to talk as Ja-cobs talking pine tree did, if he will butbe taitiiful to its lessons it will teach himmany useful facts; will prompt him toroach, like a tree, upward and outward,and to throw out from his life an in-fluence as healthful and pure as the fra-grance of the pine. LOVEDAY AlMIRA THE KING RAIL. {Rallus elegans.) The King Rail is the largest of theAmerican true rails and is favored witha number of popular names. It is knownas the Red-breasted Rail, the Marsh Hen,the Sedge Hen and the Mudhen. Itfrequents the fresh-water marshes of theeastern United States and is found asfar north as Maine and Wisconsin andas far west as Kansas. This fine bird very closely resemblesthe clapper rail which inhabits the salt-water marshes of eastern North two species, however, may be easilydistinguished by the difference in sizeand color. The clapper rail is muchsmaller and the upper parts are moreashy or grayish in color and the lowerparts are duller and more yellowish. Fifteen of the one hundred and eightyknown species of the family Rallidse,which includes the rails, gallinules andcoots, inhabit North America. The rails are not fitted for easy flightand find safety from an enemy by run-ning and hiding, only taking to flightwhen all other means of e
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