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I suspect it requires a special gift of grace to enable one to hear the bird-songs; some new powermust be added to the ear, or some obstruction removed. There are not only scales upon our eyes sothat we do not see, there are scales upon our ears so that we do not hear. A city woman who hadspent much of her time in the country once asked a well-known ornithologist to take her where shecould hear the bluebird. "What, never heard the bluebird!" said he. "I have not," said the woman."Then you will never hear it," said the bird-lover; never hear it with that inward ear that gives beautyand meaning to the note. He could probably have taken her in a few minutes where she could haveheard the call or warble of the bluebird; but it would have fallen upon unresponsive ears-upon earsthat were not sensitized by love for the birds or associations with them. Bird-songs are not music, properly speaking, but only suggestions of music. A great many people whose attention would bequickly arrested by the same volume of sound made by a musical instrument or by artificial meansnever hear them at all. The sound of a boy's penny whistle there in the grove or the meadow wouldseparate itself more from the background of nature, and be a greater challenge to the ear, than is thestrain of the thrush or the song of the sparrow. There is something elusive, indefinite, neutral, aboutbird-songs that makes them strike obliquely, as it were, upon the ear; and we are very apt to missthem. They are a part of nature, the Nature that lies about us, entirely occupied with her own affairs, and quite regardless of our presence. Hence it is with bird-songs as it is with so many other things innature-they are what we make them; the ear that hears them must be half creative. I am alwaysdisturbed when persons not especially observant of birds ask me to take them where they can hear aparticular bird, in whose song they have become interested through a description in some book. As Ilisten with them, I feel like apologizing for the bird: it has a bad cold, or has just heard somedepressing news; it will not let itself out. The song seems so casual and minor when you make a deadset at it. I have taken persons to hear the hermit thrush, and I have fancied that they were all thetime saying to themselves, "Is that all?" But should one hear the bird in his walk, when the mind isattuned to simple things and is open and receptive, when expectation is not aroused and the songcomes as a surprise out of the dusky silence of the woods, then one feels that it merits all the finethings that can be said of i

Containing many of Henry's finest short stories.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.It seems that the wise executive power that rules life has thought best to drill man in these three conditions; and none may escape all three. In rural places the terms do not mean so much. Poverty is less pinching; love is temperate; war shrinks to contests about boundary lines and the neighbors' hens. It is in the cities that our epigram gains in truth and vigor; and it has remained for one John Hopkins to crowd the experience into a rather small space of time.

This manual covers the various types of auxiliary power generating systems used on military installations. It provides data for the major components of these generating systems; such as, prime movers, generators, and switchgear. It includes operation of the auxiliary generating system components and the routine maintenance which should be performed on these components. It also describes the functional relationship of these components and the supporting equipment within the complete system.The guidance and data in this manual are intended to be used by operating, maintenance, and repair personnel. It includes operating instructions, standard inspections, safety precautions, troubleshooting, and maintenance instructions. The information applies to reciprocating (diesel) and gas turbine prime movers, power generators, switchgear, and subsidiary electrical components. It also covers fuel, air, lubricating, cooling, and starting systems.

This manual meets the first aid training needs of individual service members. Because medical personnel will not always be readily available, the nonmedical service members must rely heavily on their own skills and knowledge of life-sustaining methods to survive on the integrated battlefield. This publication outlines both self-aid and aid to other service members (buddy aid). More importantly, it emphasizes prompt and effective action in sustaining life and preventing or minimizing further suffering and disability. First aid is the emergency care given to the sick, injured, or wounded before being treated by medical personnel. The term first aid can be defined as "urgent and immediate lifesaving and other measures, which can be performed for casualties by nonmedical personnel when medical personnel are not immediately available." Nonmedical service members have received basic first aid training and should remain skilled in the correct procedures for giving first aid. This manual is directed to all service members. The procedures discussed apply to all types of casualties and the measures described are for use by both male and female service members.This publication is in consonance with the following North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) International Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) and American, British, Canadian, and Australian Quadripartite Standardization Agreements (QSTAGs).

"Lincoln, the Lawyer" "Lincoln, the Citizen" "Lincoln, the Story-Teller" "Lincoln, the Statesman" "Lincoln, the Friend of Man" and other phrases of this remarkable character, have received special treatment at the hands of various students and writers. While some attention has been given to the religious side, it has been comparatively meager, and has not received the prominence that it deserves. Here is a labor of love. The aim has been to let Abraham Lincoln speak for himself, that the people, hearing his message, may learn to know the real Lincoln. The author shows Lincoln to have been a profoundly religious man.

The book is divided into four main headings: Medieval and Renaissance, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, The Eighteenth Century, and, The Nineteenth Century. Some of the chapter headings include: Sexuality in Medieval France, Indecent Fabliaux and Farces, Troubadours and Courts of Love, Anti-Royal and Anti-Church Literature, The Obscenity of the Theatres, Secret Clubs and Perversions, Celebrated Pornologists, Pornographia Rampant, Babylon on the Seine, The Napoleonic Regime, The Reign of the Prostitute, The Heyday of Obscene Art, and Publishers of Erotica, and many more. This exciting chronicle of La France érotique includes a history of French erotic literature which should appeal to every bibliophile. The volume covers secret love-clubs, clandestine dens, obscene art, private theatres, complicated brothel systems, priapic and sotadic verses, flagellation, and a host of other eroscenic curiosities.