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is wrong to eat chickens ; or that robin babies 

 were made to live and grow up, and crow babies 

 to die of starvation ? The farmer ignores the mil- 

 lions of insects she destroys, and shoots her for 

 the one chicken she takes, though she has been 

 amply proved to be one of his most valuable ser- 

 vants. The kingbird and the oriole worry her 

 life out of her because her babies like eggs — as 

 who does not I 



In fact, there are, emphatically, two sides to 

 the crow question, and I take the side of the 

 crow. 



