p 15
Canary 24
Crane 24
Crow 100
Eagle 100
Fowl, common 10
Goldfinch 15
Goose 50
Heron 59
Lark 13
Linnet 23
Nightingale 18
Parrot 60
Partridge 15
Peacock 24
Pelican 50
Pheasant 15
Pigeon 20
Raven 100
Robin 12
Skylark 30
Sparrow Hawk 40
Swan 100
Thrush 10
Wren 3

The average age of the boarding-house variety of chicken is still
undetermined.

INDEPENDENCE DAY RHYMES.

Words of the Poets Explain Why Hats Go Off While Flags Are Passing, Why
the Eagle Screams on "The Fourth," and How Young America Became
Identified With Sky-Rockets and Fire-Crackers.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

=By Lord Tennyson.=

[Signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.]

O Thou, that sendest out the man
To rule by land and sea,
Strong mother of a lion-line,
Be proud of these strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee!

What wonder if in noble heat
Those men thine arms withstood,
Retaught the lesson thou had'st taught,
And in thy spirit with thee fought--
Who sprang from English blood.

But thou rejoice with liberal joy,
Lift up thy rocky face,
And shatter, when the storms are black,
In many a streaming torrent back,
The seas that shook thy base!

Whatever harmonies of law
The growing world assume,
Thy work is thine--the single note
From that deep chord which Hampden smote
Will vibrate to the doom.

THE FLAG GOES BY.

=By H.H. Bennett.=

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky;
Hats off!
The flag is passing by.

Blue and crimson and white it shines
Over the steel-tipped ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly;
But more than the flag is passing by.

Sea fights and land fights, grim and great,
Fought to make and to save the state;
Weary marches, and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips.

Days of plenty and days of peace;
March of a strong land's swift increase;
Equal justice, right, and l