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issued forth each evening to receive food and practise flying. 

 One of them fluttered down one night and gave us the 

 privilege of a closer inspection. 



Sometimes one will happen upon a Screech Owls' nest 

 by some fortunate chance. Two boys were walking out one 

 afternoon, early in May. Happening to notice a Flickers' 

 hole in a low stub out in a field, one of them climbed up, 

 put in his hand, and pulled out an unresisting Screech Owl. 

 They carried it home and tried to feed it on corn, — which 

 was as reasonable as for themselves to eat hav ! After three 



SCREECH OWL. "COMING TO LIFE" 



