Front matter
Reading edition
BIRDS IN THE BUSH
BY BRADFORD TORREY
SIXTH EDITION
BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1893
Copyright, 1885, By BRADFORD TORREY
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
Wherefore, let me intreat you to read it with favour and attention, and to pardon us, wherein we may seem to come short of some words, which we have laboured to interpret. The Prologue of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach.