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block Fast of Becaderon New-York.

HAVE not words to express my enthusiasm for the birds that sing around my door. They gladden my soul with their music, be it " grave or gay, lively or severe." From their advent in the early spring 'ime, until the chill winds of autumn force them to seek a milder clime, they always find a warm friend in me. The man or boy, who shoots or entraps one on my premises, incurs my displeasure in a greater degree than if he had stolen a bushel of my finest peaches. How can one, in whose breast there is the least morsel of humanity, to say nothing about refinement and taste, deliberately murder the robin or blue-bird, in the very act of warbling one of his sweetest

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songs? There are those that will do such a deed unblushingly,
and even boastingly. But I have always thought there must be
something wrong-some screw loose, perhaps either in the
head or the heart of such persons. When I see a boy, using all
the cunning he is master of, to decoy a singing bird into a cage,
I think I am justified in coming straight to the conclusion that
he is a harsh, rough, unamiable, unlovely boy, in his nature.

On the grounds connected with my residence, on the banks of
the Hudson, there are a great many trees-not simply fruit
trees, in the immediate vicinity of my dwelling, but forest trees,
of gigantic size. Consequently, a great variety of birds-those
of the woods, as well as those of the meadow and the orchard—
resort to these grounds, and build their nests here. Not long
after we took possession of this place, I found one day, to my
astonishment, a bird trap in my miniature forest. One of my
neighbor's boys was watching it. "My little friend,” said I,
"this is cruel business. If I were in your place, I would not
catch these dear creatures." I hoped this advice, rather mildly
administered, would dissuade the lad from bird-catching. But,
an hour afterward, when I happened to turn my attention again to
that quarter, I found, on the contrary, that the cage was still
standing on the spot where I first saw it. So I took it, and set
it over the fence, on my neighbor's premises, telling the boy,
that if I ever again found him or any one else catching birds on
grounds belonging to me, he might rest assured that he would
pay dearly for it. He saw I was in earnest, and he never
troubled the birds on
our premises after that, nor did any one
else to our knowledge. The consequence has been, that we have
had multitudes of birds in our yard, and all about our place.
And you cannot imagine how tame m ny of them have become.
The little sparrow, as all of you know who live in the country,
is especially confiding, and only needs to receive very little
kindness to induce him to build a nest within a
a few feet of your
door, and to hop upon the door-step after crumbs of bread, even
while you stand on the threshold. But we have been delighted
to see several other birds, almost as tame as
as the sparrow. Two
pair of wrens built their nests close by the house, last spring.

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