Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission (1874) (14749697085)

Identifier: boysbirdsormisst00dyer (find matches)
Title: Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Dyer, Sidney, 1814-1898. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Bible and publication society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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torun away to New York and go to sea, where hewould never be heard of again. But when the timefor final decision came, the thoughts of his poorwidowed mother left in her loneliness kept him backfrom the fulfillment of his rash purpose, and heturned away from the landing to go he knew notwhere, to do he knew not what. In this frameof mind he wandered listlessly about until near themiddle of the afternoon, w7hen, finding himself nearthe residence of Doctor Truat, he determined to goin, acknowledge his wrong-doing, and seek the doc-tors mediation in securing a readmission to theschool. He was perhaps aided in reaching thisconclusion by learning during the day that his com-panion in evil, much to his surprise, had been seenentering the schoolhouse on most confidential termswith the teacher. Surely, he thought, if David hasfound forgiveness, I may hope to be restored to favor—a hope well founded, the reader will at once surmise,as he will see how it was realized farther on. I Ad, KB Ji.
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1. Red-shouldered Hawk. 2. Sharp-shinned Hawk. 3. Sparrow Hawk. 4. Upland Plover. 5. Canadian Grouse. 6. Red Crossbill. 7. Bine-winged Yellow Warbler 8. Tree Sparrow. 9. Orchard Oriol*. 10. Black-throated Green Warbler. 11. Red-bellied Nuthatch. 12. White-bellied Nuthatch. 13. Snow-bird. CHAPTER VIII. VULTURES, HAWKS, AND OWLS. TT7HEX the proper hour arrived in the afternoon, Miss Truat opened her portfolio, and takingfrom it some exceedingly well-executed water-colordrawings of the vulture tribe, said : Dear children, according to my promise I willnow tell you something more about the robber birds,and will begin with the largest of the class, and hereis his picture, the famous Lammergeyer of the Alps.This painting I made from a magnificent specimenkilled by an Alpine hunter when making a journeythrough Switzerland with my father. He was foundfar up the mountains, where he had his nest, and hadproved very annoying to the farmers in the neigh-borhood, on whose flocks he had made occasi