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erable prejudice against the buzzards, of whose ways, unclean 

 from our human standpoint, I had read. Yet no true nature- 

 lover can afiford to despise any part of the natural economy, 

 and I found that there is much to be said for the buzzards. 



TURKEY BUZZARD. "A FINE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH" 



Probably most birds have habits which would not bear close 

 inspection by the squeamishly inclined. We can well afford 

 to gloss over or euphemize some things in nature which 

 strike us as disagreeable, realizing that the natural economy 

 is more reasonable and normal than our artificial prejudices. 

 The person who shudders at every wonderful insect and 

 loathes the toad, lizard, and harmless snake, and screams at 

 a bright-eyed mouse, is profoundly to be pitied. The natural 

 world to such will be a sealed book and an arrav of horrors. 



