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... tion and caresses it has been accustomed to ; it is quite an easy matter to break the heart of a bird . I would rather kill with my own hand any pet of mine than give it up to any one , unless he was a greater lover of wild creatures ...
... tion and caresses it has been accustomed to ; it is quite an easy matter to break the heart of a bird . I would rather kill with my own hand any pet of mine than give it up to any one , unless he was a greater lover of wild creatures ...
Page 81
... tion of their crops to shoot them at times , they are far from willing to see them captured in this wholesale way . Real country folk are very tender in their deal- ings with the birds that live near them . In the course of my ...
... tion of their crops to shoot them at times , they are far from willing to see them captured in this wholesale way . Real country folk are very tender in their deal- ings with the birds that live near them . In the course of my ...
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... tion , so after a time I gave them their liberty . The finches are bright and intelligent birds , very useful in their proper home - the woods and the fields ; but those who value a full crop - or , in some cases , any crop at all ...
... tion , so after a time I gave them their liberty . The finches are bright and intelligent birds , very useful in their proper home - the woods and the fields ; but those who value a full crop - or , in some cases , any crop at all ...
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... migrating habits of the birds remains a vexed ques- tion with the most earnest students in natural his- tory . In spite , too , of the statement in Holy Scrip ture , that " the stork in the heavens knoweth OUR THRUSHES . 91.
... migrating habits of the birds remains a vexed ques- tion with the most earnest students in natural his- tory . In spite , too , of the statement in Holy Scrip ture , that " the stork in the heavens knoweth OUR THRUSHES . 91.
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... tion a rod or gun , and he will wax eloquent on the subject . I venture to state the passion is natural to any healthy subject who has the use of his faculties . I have the complaint myself to a large 118 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN .
... tion a rod or gun , and he will wax eloquent on the subject . I venture to state the passion is natural to any healthy subject who has the use of his faculties . I have the complaint myself to a large 118 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN .
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