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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Passenger Pigeons Once Were Slaughtered By Millions<\/em><\/strong> by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, NJ<\/strong><\/em> For the stories of the wildwood Yes, the stories that were told us seventy years ago still come up in quiet hours to rouse the drowsy mind and stir the sluggish blood. Some scattering ones that do not seem to fit well in any particular place may recall fond memories in older people;\u00ac\u2020 and may be of more or less interest now and then to one of the younger generation, not for themselves but as inklings of the older times. Present conditions are not calculated to make them as vivid as when memory recorded them so long ago; yet perhaps enough may be depicted, even by a limping pen, to give a fair idea of things then made so clear, often quite thrilling and always interesting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n The Species Is Now Extinct<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n as published in the Hunterdon County Democrat, April 17, 1930<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nOf the mountain and the plain
\n(Any stories heard in childhood)
\nAre the stories that remain.<\/p>\n