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Abel Merrill, Moses H. Clement. 1817.
Jonathan Merrill, Abel Merrill, James Williams. 1818-19.
Joseph Patch, jr., Moses H. Clement,
Stephen Flanders. 1820.
Joseph Patch, jr., Nathaniel Clough, Jacob Patch.
1821.
Nathaniel Clough, Jacob Patch, Amos Tarlton. 1822.
Jacob Patch, Amos Tarlton, George Libbey. 1823.
Abel Merrill, Joseph Patch, Joseph Bixby. 1824.
Jacob Patch, Moses H. Clement, William Clough. 1825. Moses H. Clement, Jacob Patch, William Clough. 1826.
Jacob Patch, William Clonglı, Enoch R. Weeks. 1827. Moses H. Clement, Enoch R. Weeks, Stevens Merrill. 1828. Moses H. Clement, Enoch R. Weeks, Samuel Merrill. 1829.
William Clough, Samuel Merrill, George Libbey.
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TOWN CLERKS.
1830. Jacob Patch, Benjamin Little,! Samuel Merrill.
1831-32.
William Pomeroy, Jonathan Little, Joseph Bixby.
1840. Jonathan Little, Joseph Bixby,
1849.
Samuel L. Merrill, David Smith,
Thomas P. Huckins. 1850.
Moses H. Clement, Samuel L. Merrill.
1834. Moses H. Clement, Samuel L. Merrill, Samuel Merrill. 1835.
Jacob Patch, Isaac Merrill, 2d,
Isaac Merrill, Russell F. Clifford,
Stevens M. Dow.
Michael P. Merrill,
1845.
Joseph Clement. 1853.
George Libbey. 1837.
James S. Merrill. 1846.
Jonathan Little. 1854.
Enoch R. Weeks.
James S. Merrill,
William Pomeroy,
1838.
James Clement.
Ezra W. Cleasby,
William Clough,
1847.
James Clement.
William Pomeroy,
Jesse Little,
Town Clerks.
1779. Obadiah Clement,
6 years. 1813. Thomas Whipple,
2 years.
1786. Joshua Copp,
1 year 1815. Jonathan Merrill,
1 year.
1787. Joshua Merrill,
1 year. 1816. Joseph Patch, jr.,
1 year.
1788. Nathaniel Knight,
2 years. 1817. Robert Burns,
1 year.
1790. Joshua Copp,
2 years. 1818.
Joseph Patch, jr.,
2 years.
1793. Jonathan Merrill,
10 years., 1820. Moses H. Clement,
7 years.
1803. Ezra Bartlett,
2 years 1827.
Enoch R. Weeks,
1 year.
1805. Abel Merrill,
1 year. 1828. Anson Merrill,
4 years.
1806. Jonathan Merrill,
1 year. 1831. Jesse Little,
7 years.
1807. Abel Morrill,
2 years. 1838. Russell K. Clement,
6 years.
1809. Jonathan Merrill,
2 years. 1844. Isaac Merrill,
2 years.
1811. Benjamin Merrill,
2 years.
1846. Russell K. Clement,
8 years.
Samuel L. Merrill, Thomas P. Huckins, Alba C. Weeks. 1851. Samuel L. Merrill, Alba C. Weeks, Michael P. Merrill. 1852.
Solomon Cotton. 1836. Samuel L. Merrill, Solomon Cotton,
Isaac Merrill,
Russell F. Clifford,
David Smith,
Joseph Clement,
Samuel L. Merrill,
George Libbey,
Samuel L. Merrill,
Samuel L. Merrill,
Russell F. Clifford. 1844.
Solomon Cotton, Ira M. Weeks. 1848.
Jesse Little, Ira M. Weeks, David Smith.
Jacob Patch, Benjamin Little, Anson Merrill. 1833. Enoch R. Weeks,
Jonathan Little. 1839.
Stevens M. Dow. 1841-42.
Enoch R. Weeks, Solomon Cotton, Nathaniel Merrill, 2d. 1843. Enoch R. Weeks, William Pomeroy,
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Representatives.
1784. Obadiah Clement,
2 years. 1830. Moses H. Clement,
1 year.
1789. William Tarlton,
1 year. 1831. Enoch R. Weeks,
2 years.
1793. Jonathan Merrill,
3 years. 1833. Jacob Patch,
1 year.
1797. William Butler,
2 years. 1834. Moses H. Clement,
1 year.
1800. William Tarlton,
1 year. 1835. Jacob Patch,
1 year.
1801. Abel Merrill,
1 year. 1836. Moses H. Clement,
1 year.
1805. Ezra Bartlett,
2 years. 1838.
Moses H. Clement,
1 year.
1808. Abel Merrill,
2 years. 1839. Enoch R. Weeks, 1 year.
1810.
Daniel Davis,
1 year.
1840.
Jesse Little,
2 years.
1811.
Abel Merrill,
2 years.
1842.
William Clough,
2 years .
1813.
Daniel Davis,
1 year.
1844.
Russell K. Clement,
2 years.
1814.
Joseph Patch, jr.,
2 years.
1846. Jonathan Little,
2 years.
1816. Daniel Davis,
1 year.
1848. Russell K. Clement,
1 year.
1817. Joseph Patch, jr.,
4 years. 1849. L. C. Whitcher,
2 years.
1822. Amos Tarlton,
2 years. 1851. William Pomeroy,
2 years.
1825. Abel Merrill,
2 years. 1853. Isaac Merrill,
1 year.
1828. Jacob Patch,
1 year.
1854.
Russell K. Clement.
Moderators.
Joshua Copp, 1779, 82, 98, 99; Thomas Clark, 1780, 1; William Butler, 1783, 4, 7, 8, 91, 4, 1801 ; Stevens Merrill, 1785, 9, 90 ; Absalom Peters, 1786 ; Ephraim True, 1792; Thomas Boynton, 1793, 5; Abel Merrill, 1796, 1802, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25 ; Aaron Welch, 1797; Ezra Bartlett, 1800, 8, 11; Obadiah Clement, 1804; Jonathan Merrill, 1806, 9; Daniel Patch, 1816, 21, 2, 3, 4; George Libbey, 1826, 36, 7, 8, 9, 40, 2; Jacob Patch, 1827, 8 9, 30, 1, 2, 3, 4 ; Anson Merrill, 1835 ; Isaac Merrill, 1841, 3, 8, 52, 3; William Pomeroy, 1844, 5, 7; Francis A. Cushman, 1846 ; Michael P. Merrill, 1849, 50, 1, 4.
School Committees.
1829.
Nathaniel Merrill, 2d. 1833.
David Smith, James M. Williams. 1845.
David C. French, Horatio W. Ileath, Robert E. Merrill 1830
Job E. Merrill, Stevens M. Dow,
David Smith, Michael P. Merrill,
Jacob Patch,
Anson Merrill,
Job E. Merrill,
Stevens M. Dow,
Michael P. Merrill,
Jonathan Little. 1831.
Anson Merrill. 1837.
Dudley B. Cotton,
Ira M. Weeks. 1847.
s aac Merrill, 2d, Job E. Merrill, Russell F. Clifford. 1832. Jonathan Little, John L. Merrill,
Jesse Little, Moses Merrill,
Russell K. Clement. 1844.
Michael P. Merrill,
David Smith, Dudley B. Cotton, Ira M. Weeks.
Russell K. Clement. 1835.
James M. Williams. 1846.
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STATISTICS.
1848-9. Dudley B. Cotton, Ira Merrill,
1850. William Merrill, Alba C. Weeks,
Joseph B. Cotton. 1851.
William Merrill,
James M. Williams.
Joseph B. Cotton,
1854.
James M. Williams.
Ira Merrill.
1852.
Michael P. Merrill.
Population at different periods.
1780
about 125
1810
506
1840
938
1790
206
1820
544
1850
900
1800
336
1830
702
1854
1256
Amount of money raised each year to pay town charges.
1779
£100
1798
10
1817
60
1836
250
1780
150
1799
0
1818
30
1837
250
1781
500
1800
13
1819
75
1838
300
1782
41*
1801
0
1820
50
1839
400
1783
6
1802
15
1821
30
1840
600
1784
5
1803
30
1822
40
1841
400
1785
0
1804
70
1823
50
1842
800
1786
5
1805
160
1824
75
1843
1000
1787
0
1806
40
1825
60
1844
1200
1788
3
1807
40
1826
75
1845
€50
1789
6
1808
75
1827
150
1846
525
1790
9
1809
80
1828
200
1847
425
1791
6
1810
0
1829
300
1848
1000
1792
0
1811
0
1830
200
1849
900
1793
412
1812
300
1831
200
1850
700
1791
6
1813
100
1832
200
1851
800
1795
3
1814
245
1833
150
1852
600
1796
0
1815
0
1834
150
1853
500
1797
$13,33
1816
30
1835
400
1854
550
* Silver money.
1853. James M. Williams, Ira Morrill.
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CHAPTER VIII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WARREN derives its beautiful name from Admi- ral WARREN, of Louisburg notoriety. This com- mander rendered efficient service in wresting that almost impregnable fortress from the French. The troops sent against it were principally New Hampshire and Massachusetts men, and the pro- prietors, wishing to honor him, mentioned his name as the one by which they wished the town- ship called. The town bears also the same name as Gen. Warren, one of those revolutionary he- roes who fell as a martyr to the cause of freedom at the battle of Bunker Hill, and whose deeds are remembered by every true-hearted American with pride.
Warren is situated in Longitude 5 ° East from Washington; Latitude 43 º 50: It is bounded on the north by Benton and Woodstock, east by Woodstock and Ellsworth, south by Wentworth, and west by Piermont. It is seventy miles from Concord, on the route of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, twelve from Haverhill, and ninety-eight from Portsmouth.
The town is rough and uneven, except on the river, but the soil is generally of a fertile char-
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acter, and by fair cultivation yields respectable crops; although the first settlers realized better ones than are obtained at the present time. The soil was then new and had not been exhausted by a perhaps sometimes injudicious method of farming. But the individual who now walks over the pleasant fields, and little dreams of the hard toil that has been spent to make them what they are, if he will but consider a moment, he will perceive that he is more blessed by what he receives from the earth than was the early pioneer.
The early settler was a stranger to many of the conveniences and comforts of life. He had not the implements for cultivating his land which are now possessed, and it was a long distance to populous settlements. Instead of houses of worship and other instruction, mills, stores and shops, around them was the wild wilderness; and it was not unfrequent to see the harmless moose approach the humble cottage, and the inoffensive deer was seen feeding on their little improve- ments. The beaver, the otter and the muskrat sported up and down the rivers and the brooks almost unmolested, while the midnight howling of the bear and wolf announced to them their intended depredations on their flocks, herds and fields. Although wood and timber was plenty, so much of it was more of an evil than a blessing. Their household and farming utensils were rude,
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and for the fine plows, harrows, hoes, shovels, carpets, sofas and pianos, they had the wooden plow, the wooden-toothed harrow, the crotchet stick for a fork, and home-made spinning wheels and looms. For the want of carriages they trav- elled in summer on horse back, and in winter rode upon sleds to meeting or in visiting their neigh- bors. They were a hardy race, and many of them excellent horsemen. When they went to meeting in summer, the good man mounted his horse, and rode with his wife behind him, with perhaps a child in her arms, while he carried one before him on a pillow. But the good woman did not always ride behind, for when she wished to visit her friends she generally mounted and rode off alone upon a spirited horse, without guide or protector.
When East Warren was first settled, and the road nothing more than a path with the trees and underbrush cleared from it, Mrs. Samuel Knight and Mrs. Caleb Homan, accompanied by several other women and a young man by the name of Webster, who was from Landaff, went to Mr. Stephen Flanders' to pay the family a visit. On their return home, when they arrived near the Williams bridge, Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Homan challenged young Webster, who was mounted on a very fleet horse, to a race. He at first did not like to consent, but they urged him
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so strongly that at last he acquiesced ; and whip- ping up, they went over that rough road for the distance of a mile and a half at almost lightning speed, when Webster, who had the smartest horse, proved the winner, much to the chagrin of Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Homan. Mr. Webster, now an old man, remarked in telling the story that he had rode over that piece of road many times since, but never a quarter so fast as then.
These were a specimen of the women of that day ; hardy and strong; firm and daring. They could attend to their household affairs, or, when necessity called, could chop wood, drive oxen, plow, sow and harvest crops, as well as the men. Their clothing was simply tow and linen in sum- mer, and woolen frocking for the men and woolen dresses for the women, in winter.
The men had for amusements, raisings, train- ings, wrestling, lifting and chopping bees, while the women had quilting parties and carding bees. Tea and coffee were then almost unknown; still their visitors were treated in the most hospitable manner, and for supper were served with various kinds of broth ; corn, bean and barley broth being the most common. As a substitute for these, hasty-pudding was not uncommon, and this dish constituted the almost standing supper in most families; food not so delicious as perhaps is eaten at the present time, but far more healthy. The
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men in winter wore shoes with woolen leggings tied at the top, to exclude the snow. They were more conveniently made, and much cheaper than boots. In summer both men and women went barefoot a greater portion of the time. Great coats and surtouts were seldom seen.
Every town has had its witch or wizard, and Warren among them. It is told that in olden time, when there were but a few clearings in town, a young man went to see his lady love .- While there, the happy moments flew swift, and time had crept far into the small hours before he thought of taking his leave. On his way home he had to cross a stream on the trunk of a fallen tree, and when he arrived at this point, as he was stepping upon the log which was shaded by the foliage of the huge trees around, and through which a few straggling rays of the moon-beams struggled, he saw standing on the other end a white, airy figure, which looked to him anything but earthly. He gazed upon it for a few mo- ments, and then stepped from the log. As he did so the figure followed his example, and he saw it standing on the water. He now thought he would venture across, but the moment he was on the log, that light form was there also. Now filled with terror, he gazed upon it a few mo- ments longer, and beholding as he thought its ghastly visage, he turned about and swiftly made
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his way back to the house where he had so agree- ably spent the evening, and waited till daylight before returning home.
A certain individual had at one time dealings with another person, who was reputed to be a wizard. In the transaction the first named gen- tleman is said to have incurred the latter's dis- pleasure, and he swore revenge. A few days after, a son of the first named man, who was deaf and dumb, commenced to act strangely. He would be found running upon the ridge poles of barns and upon the tops of fences, which he was never known to do before; at times he would seem to experience the most excrutiating torture and would writhe for hours in agony. When asked who tormented him, he would go with an individual and point out the house in which he said his tormenter lived, but never in any in- stance could he be persuaded to enter it.
Thus it continued until at last some of the gentleman's neighbors induced him-although he was incredulous as to believing in witches-to try some experiments upon the boy, thinking to make his tormentors cease from troubling him. Accordingly some of the boy's blood was pro- cured, corked up in a bottle and placed under the hearth of the fire-place. Immediately after the reputed wizard was taken suddenly with a violent bleeding at the nose, and for a long time it could
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not be stopped. It finally was, and upon looking at the bottle the cork was found to be out, and the blood had run therefrom .. The boy began to cut the same antics as before, and his tortures were nearly doubled. Again some of his blood was procured and carefully corked in the bottle. Soon the wizard began to bleed at the nose, and continued so to do, until at last, by a powerful effort and a great deal of cursing, it stopped .- Soon after, the boy began to behave a great deal worse than before, and would at times act in a manner truly terrible. This could not be borne long, as they had found a short remedy ; and again procuring a larger quantity of blood, placed it in the bottle, and as a caution against its be- coming uncorked, a small sharp sword was placed in the cork.
It was evening when this was done, and shortly after the boy went to bed. In the morning when he awoke he seemed to be in great glee, and immediately informed the family by signs that his tormentor was dead, which proved to be the case. Upon examining the bottle it was found that the sword had penetrated through the cork to the blood. From that time tradition says the boy was no more troubled.
An old gentleman once wishing to go upon a journey several miles from home, mounted his horse and started. He had hardly got a dozen
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rods from his door, when the animal suddenly stopped and refused to go farther. The rider sat in the saddle in a strange fit of abstraction, as if gazing upon the revels of fiends incarnate, in some far off world. The horse seemed to behold the same scene also ; and great drops of sweat trickled from every part of its body. All at once the rider roused himself, and strove by every means in his power to make the horse proceed, but in vain; and at last, weary in the attempt, he turned the animal into the pasture and relin- quished the journey, much to the surprise of several persons who had witnessed the scene.
Of course the reader must judge how much of these stories of supernatural events are true, and make every allowance for the prejudices of those times. For ages the belief in ghosts and goblins had prevailed; indeed, the individuals who did not believe in them were considered almost her- etics. For many hundred years England had an established code of laws against witchcraft, and it was considered a capital offence. The learned Baxter, who lived in the seventeenth century, considered all persons as obdurate Sadducees who did not believe in it, and Sir Matthew Hale, one of the brightest ornaments to the English Bar, tried and convicted several persons for the crime of witchcraft.
But the hallucinations of other generations are
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passing away, and few are the persons at the present time who indulge in the belief of goblins and ghosts. " True it is, the mediums, and other modern notions, bring to mind the diableric of old Salem, when our fathers were sorely tried ; but they don't go for much except as a means of speculation in money matters."
The dwellers in a new settlement, far away from the older towns, were just the ones to in- dulge in the belief of the supernatural. Around them were thousands of old solitudes ; and as the deepening shades of night cast her sombre mantle over the forest, it required no active imagination to picture the forms of huge giants, stalking away among the trees; to see numerous Jack-o'lanterns gliding noiselessly along to guide the lone traveller onward, until he was lost in the dark, intricate windings of some dismal old swamp ; to hear the infernal music of the old crones, as they charged in huge battalions through the tops of the lofty trees, mounted upon their never-tiring steads, a broom-stick. But they are all gone. No more do we see the individuals who indulge in such fancies; and although there were, and they still live in history, we have little right to laugh at them. If our ancestors did in- dulge in them, still they had exalted notions of piety, and thousands of good deeds, which latter it would be well if we would imitate.
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FIRST GRAVE-YARD.
In those primitive times, when fences were rare and sheep were nimble, it was found neces- sary to record the marks by which one's sheep might be known and recognized. Accordingly we are certified that Obadiah Clement's sheep are marked by one half crop on the upper side of the right ear, and one half crop on the under side of the left ear ; Joshua Merrill's, a crop from off each ear; Stevens Merrill's, a fork, like a swallow's tail, on the end of the left ear ; Joseph Merrill's, a crop off the left ear; Jonathan Mer- rill's, a crop off the left ear and a slit on the under side of the same ; Caleb Homan's, a fork like 'a swallow's tail, on the end of the left ear and a crop from off the right one ; Amos Little's, a slit on the end of the right ear; Joshua Copp's, a fork like a swallow's tail, on the right ear, and a crop on the left.
The first grave-yard was located a short dis- tance below the village, on land now owned by the railroad company, and formerly owned by J. M. Eaton. It was situated on the right hand of the road, as one travels south, at the top of a little hill formed by what might have been the bank of the river. In this yard about twenty were buried, among the first of whom was Mr. Mills, one of the first settlers. When excavations were made for the railroad the remains of several bodies were exhumed, but the overseer of the
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work dug the graves deeper, and in them again deposited the remains. Here rest many of the settlers, with no monuments to mark their graves. A life interspersed with joys and sorrows was theirs.
" Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrows oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; 1 How jocund did they drive their teams afield, How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.
But now each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow, twittering from her straw-built shed ;
The cock's shrill clarion or the echoing horn,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
. Or busy house-wife ply her weary care;
No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee, the envied kiss to share."
There were also two other burying grounds, which have become almost unknown. One of these was located near the present site of the railroad depots ; and the other on the farm of Col. Charles Lane, or on the piece of land which . the town voted to accept of Joshua Copp, Esq., for the purpose of erecting a meeting-house, and occupying as a burying-yard and training-field.
There are now five burying-yards in town ; "one on the bank of Patch brook; one at East Warren; one at Warren Summit; one on the height of land, and one on the little hill-side
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INSCRIPTION ON TOMB-STONES.
near Robert E. Merrill's, one half mile from the meeting-house. The latter is a beautiful place. There the departed rest. Side by side sleep kin- dred and friends, who were beautiful in life and in death were not divided. Just above them the winds murmur through the lofty pines, while a little distance off from the back of the yard, is heard the plaintive music of a tiny purling brook. The earliest tomb-stone reads thus :
" Hic jacet Josiah Bartlett, son of Ezra and Hannah Bartlett, who died Sept. 26, 1802, aged 11 months.
" Sleep on, sweet babe, nor fear to rise When Gabriel's trump shall rend the skies."
Among the most beautiful of the tomb-stones is that of Mrs. Hannah Dow, wife of James Dow :
" Here lies a friend we loved so dear, The loss to us it seems severe : But God has ordered all things well : She now has gone with Christ to dwell."
The following beautiful epitaph, so well ex- pressed, is on the tomb-stone over the remains of a young child of Josiah and Sarah Swain :
" This pretty rose, descendant from above- Awhile on earth did bloom in sweetest love : Till some fair angel saw the heavenly prize, And gently bore it to its native skies."
For the past few years, places of the dead have greatly improved their appearance, and
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are becoming as they should be. They are the vestibule of a beautiful land, and art and affec- tion should do their utmost to adorn them.
The animals, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, trees, shrubs and plants, found in Warren, are the same as those in other parts of northern New-Hampshire and Maine, with but few varia- tions. Those animals marked thus+ in the follow- ing catalogue were found by the first settlers ; and although still living in the dense forests which cover the greater portion of Northern New-England, have disappeared from this section.
The different kinds of animals are the bear, wol- verine,t beavert, muskrat, catamount;, wild cat, black cat, or the Indian woolaneag, moose,; deer, caribou,+ fox, wolf, hare, squirrel, rabbit, mole, mouse, rat, porcupine, skunk, ermine, usually called sable, mink, otter,+ weasel and woodchuck.
Of the different kinds of birds are the eagle, two varieties; hawk, four; crow, owl, duck, teal, gull, crane, loon, sheldrake, water-hen, partridge, wood-pecker, king-bird, crow, black-bird, cuckoo, plover, turtle-dove, whippowil, humming-bird, curlew, robin, sky-lark, thrush, thrasher or mocking-bird, bobolink, yellow-bird, blue-bird, wren, red-winged black-bird, king-fisher, wood- cock, quail, hedge-bird, cross-bill, cat-bird, gol- den-robin or gold-finch, spring-bird, hang-bird, snow-bird, wild pidgeon, house swallow, barn
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ORDERS OF BIRDS.
swallow, ground swallow, black martin, blue-jay, herrywicket.
Birds are divided into six orders, namely : ra- veners, perchers, climbers, scratchers, waders and swimmers. The Raveners are those which are remarkable for their plundering habits, and are also the most perfect in their forms. They have a strong beak, short and strong legs, and toes armed with crooked claws, as the eagle, owl, hawk, &c.
The Perchers form the second order, and they have three toes before and one behind, as the king-fisher, robin, and bobolink. Among the birds of this order are those which most delight us with their varied music. Many of them were almost unknown before the settling of the white man, and seem to have increased and multiplied with him ; journeying wherever he subdued the forest, and enlivening the groves about his cot- tage with their matin and evening songs of matchless melody.
The Climbers form the third order. They have two toes before and two behind on each foot. The cuckoo, wood-pecker, &c., belong to this order.
The Scratchers form the fourth order, and are so called from an action common to many of them. This order includes the partridge, pigeon, &c .; game sought after by the sportsman, and
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birds which delight us by the beauty and ele- gance of their forms and the rich variety and splendor of their colors.
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