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wv) VERY individual possessed of a sound
ba] heart listens with delight to the love-
notes of the woodland warblers. He never
casts a glance upon their lovely forms
without proposing to himself questions respect-
ing them; nor does he look on the trees which
they frequent, or the flowers over which they
glide, without admiring their grandeur, or de-
lighting in their sweet odours or their brilliant
tints.” These words are strikingly characteristic
of him who wrote them, as we shall see when we
have read the account given by himself of his own
early life. “I received,” says Mr Audubon, “life
and light in the New World. When I had yet
hardly learned to walk, and to articulate those first
words always so endearing to parents, the produc-
tions of nature that lay spread all around were con-
stantly pointed out to me. They soon became my
playmates; and before my ideas were sufficiently