COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY RICHARD G. BADGER

All Rights Reserved

Made in the United States of America

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

010-11-282WB

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GENE STRATTON-PORTER

A true Nature-lover, whose interest in birds is not
in anatomical specimens, but in creatures very
much alive, wonderful for beauty, song

and wings, that have spiritual uplift in
them for human beings; this little
volume about live birds is
gratefully dedicated.

IV THE KEeper of the SPRING-HOUSE

V WINGS, WINGS, WINGS

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A DISH OF ROBINS

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TION

XI THE SONG AND THE SINGER .

XII THE LOVE ELEMENT IN BIRD PROTEC-

XIII MR. ESAU

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