I see you feed your chickadees and sparrows, because they are so tame and fearless.
I'd like to come later and make a list of the birds on your place." I wonder how many she would find.

Visiting at Deerfield, Massachusetts, I said one day to my host, the artist J.W.

Champney: "You don't seem to have many birds round you." "No ?" he replied with a mocking rising inflection.

"Mrs.Miller, who was with us last week, found thirty-nine varieties in our front yard before breakfast!" Untrained eyes are really blind.
Mrs.Miller is an excellent housekeeper, although a daughter now relieves her of that care.

But, speaking at table of this and that dish and vegetable, she promised to send me some splendid receipts for orange marmalade, baked canned corn, scalloped salmon, onion _a la creme_ (delicious), and did carefully copy and send them.
She told me that in Denmark a woman over forty-five is considered gone.