The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-11-10

tSNA-O-a from Fourth EaGel
with their radiance: and so flowers
follow nowers until the springtime
splendor closes with the laurel and
me eEanescent. honey sweet locust
bloom. h late summe flowers fol-
low. me haunting lilies. and cardinal
mowers, n marshmallows, ard pale
beaon rosemary. and the goldenrod
and the asters when the afternoons
shorten n we again begin TO think
OF hres In the wide fi~replaces.
Our Bird ~Neishbors.
Most OF the birds in our neighbor.
mood are the ordinary home friends
OF the house and the barn. the wood.
lot and the pasture: but now and then
the species make zee shifts. The
cherry quail. alas, are rarely found
near US now: and we no longer hear
me whippOorwills at night. But some
birds visit US now which formerly did
not. When ! was a boy neither the
bla~ckthroated green warbler nor the
purple finch nested around Us. nor
were bobolinks found in our fields.
The black throated green warbler Is
now n Of our commonest summer
warblers; there are plenty OF purple
finches. and. best of all. the boholinks
are far from infrequent. / had writ
ten about these new visitors 10 John
Burroughs. and once when he came
ont TO see me ! was able 70 show them
To him.
Our Flying Squirrels.
When | was President. We owned n
nttle house lu western Virginia. a de-
ughtful house. TO Us at least. although
only a shell Of rough boards. We used
sometimes 20 20 there In the fan. per
maps at THANKSGIVING. an on these &C.
cas'ous We would have Quail and rab-
bits OF our own shooting. and once in
a while a Wild turkey. We also went
mere In the spring. OF course many
OF the birds were different from our
Long Island friends. There were
mockins-birds. the most attractive OF
lll birds, and j ~grosbeaks. and car
dlnals and summer r"dbirds instead Of
scarlet ~tanagrrs. and those wonderful I
singers, the BeWick's wrens. and Car
olina wrvns. All these | was able TO
snow John Burroughs when he came
10 visit us. although. by the way. he
ull not appreciate as much a. we
did n set Of inmates Of the cottage
the flying squirrels. We loved hav-
inE m" flying squirrels. father and
mother and h~alf-grovn young. in their
nest among the raftprs. and al night
We slept SO -ouudly that We ana not
IN The least mind the Wild gambols
OF he little fellows through tn rooms .
even when. as sometimes happened.
they would swoop down TO the bed
ana StuIilt across II. |
In the Yellowstone with John
Burroughs.
One April / went 10 Yellowstone
Park. when the snow was sim very
deep. and took John Burroughs with
me | wished 10 show him the blg
game OF the Park. the Wild creatures
mat have become so as'OuiShfnrIv
tame n tolerant OF human presence.
IN th' Yellowstone the animals seem
always 10 behave as one wishes them
to- II is always possible 10 see Tho
sheep and deer and antelope. and also
the great herds n elk. which arr shy
"r than the smaller beasts Tu Aur1
We found the ELK weak after th" short
commons and hard living Of winter.
One. without much difficulty. I
regularly rounded mp a big band os
mem. SO that John Burroughs could
..,ok al them ] do not think. however.
mat he cared 10 see them as much as
did. Tn" birds Interested him
more. especially q tiny owl the size
or a robin which we saw perched ON
mo TOP OF a tire" In mid-afteruoon
making g 'Ieer noise like a cork be.
ing pulled :r1m a bottle. WAS rather
ashamed 10 find how much better his
eye We're tina mine in seeing the
birds and graspins their differences.
The Bear Hunters Dinner.
When wolf hunting in Texas. and
Whon near hunting Ia Louisiana and
mississippi. I WAS nOt only CENTRALIZED
Dy the sport. but also by the strange
u'" birds and other creatures. and
me trees and flowers 7 had not known
b"for" by the way. there was one
ieast az tho White House which
stand above all others ia ms memory
even above tho time when Iured
joel Chandler Harris thither for "a
night. "a doe! iu which 10 triumph. s5
n.I who know that iny-~terafcIv shv re.
Gus" VIII testify This was the bear
81" Kindly hy my friends on thcs.
.lrt7. arf they were such fro fol
lows. Mon whom was so proud -l
mink ~ az Americans. that -c- -y
ltarf on having them 90 70 furfnr.
dinner 40 tho Whit. House Dr. T..
c"Wh"r ! succeeded there were tween
y or thirty Of them. a1 told a- good
hunters. as DARING riders. as first.
class ciiil'ne as could ha found .uv
where. no N-'r scr OF guests ever san
no Woa' iu fi" White House ..F
among r'h'r me or o.. flbl. was r
tlacf boar Dol 70 contributed ir ON.
n' these same uI.-f.
Win John Muir IN the Yosemite
NIn0 fr.f visited NHfe.-rf. -r
'lF good FORUM" %. 5000 I.. Poll. -r.r.
'hn ~%"Guoi.- and '..r q. travel down
info fN' Nue..If. u''' John Nf.Ir Dr
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