Birds and all Nature, Vol. V, No. 5, May 1899

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Various. Birds and all Nature, Vol. V, No. 5, May 1899

THE CEDAR WAXWING

THE PREACHER-BIRD

COFFEE

AN ABANDONED HOME

THE CONY

COFFEE

THE TWO ACORNS

A DEFENSE OF SOME BIRDS

MARCH AND MAY

BONAPARTE'S GULL

EGG COLLECTING

THE BABOON

THE SUMMER POOL

THE FEATHER CRUSADE

GOD'S SILENCE AND HIS VOICES ALSO

THE OWLS' SANCTUARY

THE WATER THRUSH

THE TARSIER

THE TRAILING ARBUTUS

THE HAIRY-TAILED MOLE

TREES

THE CINERARIA

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LISTEN near a grove of elms or maples and you will not fail to hear its song, a some what broken, rambling recitative, which no one has so well described as Wilson Flagg, who calls this bird the preacher, and interprets its notes as "You see it! You know it! Do you hear me? Do you believe it?" —Chapman's Bird-Life.

It was introduced into Arabia in the fifteenth century, and is so well suited to that soil and climate that the Mocha coffee has never been excelled. It became so popular that in 1638 the Mohammedan priests issued an edict against it, as the faithful frequented the coffee shops more than the mosques.

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"Why, Jenny!" shrieked her mother as Mrs. B. sank down exhausted upon the threshold of her old home. "Whatever is the matter with you, and what has brought you here this time of day?"

"I am hungry and sick, mother, and I feel as though, as though – I am going to die!"

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