. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . IHt HUBIN RF1)BR[A5T OFtUHOfF TBI fUKOPFSH rilFKnO S;ii:;ucl H,.slcin THE KINGLETS. 373 sumnicr-liouso, ready fitted, and rent free. For tliis lie more than sufficientlyrepays tlieui by tlie clieerfulness of his song, and tlie nuiUitiido of injuriousinsects which he daily destroys. Towards iall, that is in the month of Octo-ber, his song changes
. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . IHt HUBIN RF1)BR[A5T OFtUHOfF TBI fUKOPFSH rilFKnO S;ii:;ucl H,.slcin THE KINGLETS. 373 sumnicr-liouso, ready fitted, and rent free. For tliis lie more than sufficientlyrepays tlieui by tlie clieerfulness of his song, and tlie nuiUitiido of injuriousinsects which he daily destroys. Towards iall, that is in the month of Octo-ber, his song changes to a single plainti\-e note, as he passes over the yellow,manj-colored woods, and its melancholy air recalls to oiu minds the ap-proaching decay of the face of nature. Even after the trees are stripped oftheir leaves, he still lingers over his native fields, as if loath to leave the middle or end of Xovenilier few or none of them are seen ; butwith every return of mild and open weather we hear his plaintive note amidthe fields, or in the air, seeming to deplore the devastations of winter. In-deed, he appears scarcely ever totally to forsake us, but to follow fair weatherthrough all its journeyings till tlie return o
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