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BIRDS IN THE BUSH
BY
BRADFORD TORREY
SIXTH EDITION
BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1893
Copyright, 1885,
By BRADFORD TORREY
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
Wherefore, let me intreat you to read it with favour andattention, and to pardon us, wherein we may seem to comeshort of some words, which we have laboured to interpret.
The Prologue of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.