or be off; noening to  was in

    ttle impudent felloe many an ear in

    a forenoon; till at last, seizing some longer and plumper one,

    considerably bigger t, he

    out  to tiger h a buffalo, by

    t pauses, scratch

    it as if it oo he while, making

    its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular and al, being

    determined to put it t any rate; -- a singularly frivolous

    and  to where he

    lived, per to top of a pine tree forty or fifty

    rods distant, and I erre the

    ions.

    At lengt screams were heard

    long before, as th of

    a mile off, and in a stealt from

    tree to tree, nearer and nearer, and pick up the

    squirrels ting on a pitchey

    attempt to se a kernel woo big for

    ts and cer great labor they disgorge

    it, and spend an o crack it by repeated blows

    ly t much

    respect for t t first s to

    aking heir own.

    Meanwhe chickadees in flocks, which, picking up

    to t twig and,

    placing t their

    little bills, as if it  in till they were

    sufficiently reduced for ts.  A little flock of

    titmice came daily to pick a dinner out of my he

    crumbs at my door,  flitting lisping notes, like the

    tinkling of icicles in tly day day

    day, or more rarely, in spring-like days, a wiry summery phe-be

    from t at length one

    alig

    ticks  fear.  I once  upon my

    s while I was hoeing in a village gard