id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 880 Lowell, James Russell My Garden Acquaintance .txt text/plain 7690 396 79 It is good for us now and then to converse with a world like Mr. White's, where Man is the least important of animals. certain birds and the like,--a kind of _memoires pour servir,_ after ago, a cherry-tree, then in full bloom, near my window, was covered on the ground, a flock of cedar-birds comes in mid-winter to eat the "Do _I_ look like a bird that knows the flavor of raw vermin? Dr. Watts's statement that "birds in their little nests agree," like the tree, in spite of angry protests from the old birds against my garden in blossoming-time, but this year, owing to the long rains early Most people seem to think, the more trees, the more birds. I chance to pass, one of the male birds always accompanies me like a not seen for many years.(1) Of savage birds, a hen-hawk now and then ./cache/880.txt ./txt/880.txt