We will find them wherever we go, north, south, east, and west.

No town is too small, no neighborhood too remote, but there will be found women ready to carry out his cruel laws." Had we not been haunted by this vision of death which we were constantly meeting wherever women were congregated, we might have been happy in the fair land of rose blossoms and magnolias where we now sojourned.

The air was soft and balmy, and the atmosphere filled us with a serene, restful languor quite new to those who had been accustomed to the brisker habits of a colder clime.

Besides the birds there were many human visitors from the North spending the winter months here.

Some sought this warmer climate for their health, others for pleasure, and these also soon fell into the easy-going, happy-go-lucky ways induced by the sluggish climate.
Among the birds the waxwings most readily acquired this delightful Southern habit of taking life easy.