BIRDS IN THE BUSH 



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A MUTUAL SURPRISE. 



artist-ornithologist by profession, has The plea of "science" can no longer 



bird loving boys of his own, and it is excuse, if it ever could excuse, the in- 

 his hope that they may, almost his discriminate slaughter of birds. Our 

 boast that they will, "name all the great museums are groaning with their 



accumulated hundreds of thousands of 



birds without a gun." 



