. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . -^SrJ NOT SO WELL-BRED WERE A TRIO IN A NEIGHBORING NEST. a pair of splendid white pelicans CHAPTER III IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious wafers,Which, like a network of steel, extended in eveiy their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypressMet in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-airWazcd like banners that hang on the walls of ancietit the silence seemed, and zmbroken, save by the herons.

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. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . -^SrJ NOT SO WELL-BRED WERE A TRIO IN A NEIGHBORING NEST. a pair of splendid white pelicans CHAPTER III IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious wafers,Which, like a network of steel, extended in eveiy their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypressMet in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-airWazcd like banners that hang on the walls of ancietit the silence seemed, and zmbroken, save by the herons. Longfellow, Evangeline. IT was a cool, sparkling morning, with a bracing north-erly wind, the twenty-sixth of April, when we shoved thetender over the slippery soap-flat, and, in boots loadedwith the tenacious white clay mud, stood upon the southern-most tip of the mainland of the United States. An almostunbroken, unsurveyed wilderness lay before us, with all itsinteresting possibilities. A handful of settlers had taken upclaims of government land along the shore, cleared a few 42 WILD WINGS openings in the mangroves, and built their crude cottages orcuriou

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