My dear Mrs Blackburn, The book arrived by second post, just after my letter was gone -

I see some of my old friends and some new ones, and the wonderful and horrid young cuckoo, though poor little thing it is only its instinct of tidiness - no worse than killing rats! How curious it is that the American Cuckoo should be a decent domestic mother, while the cow bird acts her part.

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