. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 224 FROM BLOMIDON TO k than there are hours in the day, and close watch for an hour of any one bird may yield a fact which no naturalist has ever recorded. I havt. a friend who lives alone, summer and winter, in a tiny hut amid the woods. The doc- tors told him that he must die, so he escaped from them to nature, made his peace with her, and regain 1 his health. To the wild creatures of the pasture, the oak woods, and the swamps he is no longer a man, but a faun ; he is one of their own kind, shy, a
. From Blomidon to Smoky, and other papers [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. 224 FROM BLOMIDON TO k than there are hours in the day, and close watch for an hour of any one bird may yield a fact which no naturalist has ever recorded. I havt. a friend who lives alone, summer and winter, in a tiny hut amid the woods. The doc- tors told him that he must die, so he escaped from them to nature, made his peace with her, and regain 1 his health. To the wild creatures of the pasture, the oak woods, and the swamps he is no longer a man, but a faun ; he is one of their own kind, shy, alert, silent. They, having learned to trust him, have come a little nearer to men. I once went to his hut when he was absent, and stretched myself in the sunlight by his tiny doorstep. Presently two chickadees came to a box of birdseed swinging from the pine limb overhead, and fed there, cracking the seeds one by one with their bills. Then, from the swamp, a pair of catbirds appeared, and fed upon crumbs scattered over the ground just at my feet; a chipmunk ran back and forth past them, coming almost within reach of my hand; soon after a song sparrow drove away the cat- birds, and then sang a little sotto voce song to me before helping itself to the crumbs. When my friend returned, he told me the story of this song sparrow; how he had saved its life, and been rewarded by three years of gratitude, confi- dence, and affection on the part of the brave littlo. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bolles, Frank, 1856-1894. Boston; New York : Houghton Mifflin
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