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  [Illustration (signed) W Hamilton Gibson]




  MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS

  BY

  WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON

  ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK AND LONDON
  HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
  1898

  Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

  _All rights reserved._




  [Illustration: CONTENTS]


                                                                 Page

  _A Familiar Guest_                                                3

  _The Cuckoos and the Outwitted Cow-bird_                         23

  _Door-step Neighbors_                                            57

  _A Queer Little Family on the Bittersweet_                       87

  _The Welcomes of the Flowers_                                   105

  _A Honey-dew Picnic_                                            151

  _A Few Native Orchids and Their Insect Sponsors_            