. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . The Mother Teal and the Ovefland Route. fulness of promise. Indeed, the little Flickershad almost chipped their glassy shells, and theeggs, the ten treasures of the Teal, had lost thelook of mere interesting things, and were puttingon, each, an air of sleeping personahty, warm,sentient, pulsatory, and almost vocal. The little Teal had lost her mate early in theseason. At least, he had disappeared, and asthe land abounded in deadly foes, it was fai
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . The Mother Teal and the Ovefland Route. fulness of promise. Indeed, the little Flickershad almost chipped their glassy shells, and theeggs, the ten treasures of the Teal, had lost thelook of mere interesting things, and were puttingon, each, an air of sleeping personahty, warm,sentient, pulsatory, and almost vocal. The little Teal had lost her mate early in theseason. At least, he had disappeared, and asthe land abounded in deadly foes, it was fair tosuppose him dead. But her attention was fullytaken up with her nest and her brood. All through the latter part of June she tendedthem carefully, leaving but a little while eachday to seek food, and then covering them care-fully with a dummy foster-mother that she hadmade of down from her own breast. One morning, as she flew away, leaving thedummy in charge, she heard an ominous crack-ling in the thick willows near at hand, but shewisely went on. When she returned, her neigh-bor, the Flicker, was still uttering a note ofalarm, and down by her own nest were thefresh tracks of a m
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