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Two or three times in the weeks that followed, I rushed out of the house to find some very distressed bird, who, I was sure, from the cries, must be impaled alive on a butcher-bird's meat-hook, or undergoing torture at the hands or beak of somebody.
To take everything as equally good, to know no difference between bitter and sweet, penury and plenty, slander and praise, this is a great attainment, a Nirvana to which few can hope to arrive. Against the foil of the butcher-bird's stolidity we may set the inquisitive, garrulous temperament of the white-eyed vireo and the yellow-breasted chat.
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