The Sylvan Year Leaves From the Note book of Raoul Dubois
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\A /// X/* Qu'infectade ses sues 1'arbrisseau des druides, O doux emploi des jours ! agreables momens ! ' ' * It would be difficult to find any thing more gently heartless and amiably selfish than these last well-polished verses. It is like the gentleness of the mild-minded angler enjoying the pleasant sunshine and the purling 142 May The Bird-catcher. stream, whilst the living bait writhes in torture on his hook. Agreables momens ! Not for the birds, surely ! not for the birds ! And before qui...tting this subject let me just observe how painfully the bird-catcher is con- tinually reappearing in so great a writer as Buffon. He never fails to give his readers instructions, in this line of business, and generally tells them whether every little bird is good to eat or not. Fancy eating a brace of wrens, or of torn-tits ! It is true that we eat smaller creatures still, shrimps, for example; and the Bur- gundy vine-snail is both good and nourishing : but our sentiments are not enlisted in their behalf.
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