John Sprunt Hill, Durham banker and industrialist, is one of North Carolina's richest citizens. He is also a State Senator. One day last fortnight grey-haired John Sprunt Hill rose from his desk in the Senate chamber at Raleigh, hunched his venerable shoulders and sang out loud & clear: "Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee-dee-dee."
No sudden madness had gripped the distinguished Senator. At its annual convention North Carolina's State Federation of Women's Clubs had pondered the fact that Alabama has officially adopted the flicker as its State bird, Massachusetts the veery, West Virginia the tufted...
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