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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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mistakes, and Ishouldnt wonder but what Harry and Iwould go to France and raise frogs whenwe get through school; anyway we knowmore about them than we did beforeUncle George came, and we are going toknow still more before we get throughwith them. Grace T. Thompson. WHEN SPRING AWAKES, The Spirit of Spring-time was sleeping Deep in the ground;Winter was frowning and weeping Over her mound. The Spirit of Spring-time was dreaming Of bud and of bloom ;The sunlight above her came streaming To melt Winters gloom. The Spirit of Spring-time was waking— I hear a bird sing;The ice on the river is breaking— Awake! lovely Spring. The crocus bulb babies all listened, And gently peeped out;The eye of a violet glistened; Tulips were a-pout. The Spirit of Spring-time was rising, Her toilet made;She comes, for her smile is surprising The hill and the glade. She is here in her beauty before us— Bird-voices sing;And poets all join in the chorus,Sweet Spring. —Lucia Belle Cook. 152 Exclaiming: I
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THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. (Actitis macularia.) Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I;And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry,The wild waves reach their hands for it. The wild wind raves, the tide runs high,As up and down the beach we flit— One little sandpiper and I. —Celia Thaxter, The Sandpiper. Few birds have a more extensive rangeor are better known than the littleSpotted Sandpiper. From Alaska andHudson Bay, on the north, it is foundthroughout the whole of North Americaand in winter it flies as far as southernBrazil. Its nest is also well known, forit breeds practically throughout thewhole of temperate North America.Though more common in the interior,where it frequents the banks of streams,ponds and lakes, it also visits salt waterbeaches. On the Gulf coast of Floridathis species may be seen in large num-bers feeding at low tide among the mat-ted roots. At the rise of the tide theyfly to the branches of neighboring treeswher

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