Show tb anvil bird at duik in the wilds of the gloomy brazilian forest you will think it to hear the clink cf a hammer on an anvil you would imagine that you were approaching some settlement and the picture of the ruddy glow of the forge would come up before your eyob but if your guide were a native he would tell you that the sound was made by a campanaro cro as they call it although to foreigners it is known as tho anvil bad this bird is a little larger than a thrush the plumage is perfectly white the eyes are a pale gray color and tha naked throat and skin around the eyes anro of a fine bright green while its more northerly relative is orange and black very much liko our oriole it is generally in the early part of the day that the campanero sends forth the wonderful nota that can be beard at a distance of three miles marvelous indeed must bo the mechanism of the vocal organs of so small a bird to produce so a note but there is no doubt ol 01 the fact for many travelers have heard the strange sound uttered by the bird when perched on the topmost branch of some withered tree our animal friends I 1 heard a good story that comes from a little town in the northern part of the state among the members of tho methodist church at that is an old railroad conductor who has been retired from the business for ten years or more during the morning service at his church not many sundays ago alie old railroader was called upon by the minister to assist in taking up the collection one of the stewards who usually helped in that work being absent the retired railroader started down the aisle with the contribution basket and passed it aromnd like an old hand at the business everything passed os smoothly until be came to a good old brother who had nodded himself fast asleep and just as he was about to ans by him ha was suddenly overcome by the force of habit acquired in his rail rend daya giving tho sleep his brother a dig on the shoulder with tho bosket out Tick tt picaso pl caso ahio state boar nal |