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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 Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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usi-ness he felt something warm andsoft rubbing against his legs;he looked down and there stoodhis Goose, with protruding neckand quivering wings, gazing upat him with pleasure and fond-ness unutterable. The people about shouted withlaughter, which so enraged hermaster, that seizing his whip, hetwisted the thong of it about thepoor birds neck, swung herround and round, and supposingher dead, angrily threw her bodyout of the window. A few days after Mr. Gooseywas seized with a severe illness,which brought him to the vergeof the grave. He recovered,however, and was able at lengthto sit beside the open window.There on the grass sat the Goosegazing up at him with the sameold look of affection in her eyes. ^^^m I never to be rid of thatstupid thing ? he cried,but whenhe was told that through all hisillness the faithful bird had satthere opposite his window,scarcely touching food, his hardheart melted, and from thence-forth Mr. Goosey treated hisfeathered friend with the great-est kindness.
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THE MOUNTAIN LION. THIS is only one of the names bywhich the puma (Felts concolor)is known in the United States.He has different local names,such as tiger, cougar, catamount andpanther, or painter, as the backwoods-men entitle him, and silvery lion. The puma ranges the whole of boththe Americas from the Straits of Ma-gellan to where the increasing coldin the north of Canada blocks his pas-sage. Like many other large animals,however,, the puma has retired beforethe advance of civilization, and in manyof the more thickly populated portionsof the United States a straggler, even,is rarely to be found. The haunts of the puma depend uponthe nature of the country. In sectionswell-wooded he decidedly prefers for-ests to plains; but his favorite spots areedges of forests and plains grown withvery high grass. He always selects forhis abode such spots as afford someshelter, in the vicinity of rocks whichhave caverns for secure concealment,and in which to bring forth his young.He spends the day s

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