. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . f tumbled downchurch near our house and at the en-trance to the village there is a hugewooden cross. Further up the moun-tains stands another one, consider-ably larger and of much heavier tim-bers. These I learned are to keep theDevil out of the town, but we sawplenty of him in the saloon across thestreet, which also contained a pooltable which had been brought acrossthe Andes, slung between two mules. It is curious that the poorest peopleall over Colombia possess Singer sew-ing machines. I have seen them inthatched mud huts far u
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . f tumbled downchurch near our house and at the en-trance to the village there is a hugewooden cross. Further up the moun-tains stands another one, consider-ably larger and of much heavier tim-bers. These I learned are to keep theDevil out of the town, but we sawplenty of him in the saloon across thestreet, which also contained a pooltable which had been brought acrossthe Andes, slung between two mules. It is curious that the poorest peopleall over Colombia possess Singer sew-ing machines. I have seen them inthatched mud huts far up in the moun-tains, belonging to people that evendo not have money enough to buy achair or table to furnish their housewith. I cannot imagine how they getthem, unless they save for years andyears. The Singer appears to be theone thing that they are willing to suf-fer for, in order to possess, and onesees them everywhere. (To be continued) Let me congratulate you on decidedimprovements lately. Reminds me ofthe issues of 92 to 95. F. A. Doolittle. THE OOLOGIST. The American Ribin in its northern migration Feb. 15, 1915, in Pineal las county,Fla. —Photo by R. D. Hoyt. THE OOLOQIST
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