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Many varieties of songbirds which were familiar to my own boyhood were unknown to my children.
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Hoar laments the loss of familiar songbird species from his childhood.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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