WILD NATURE'S 

 WAYS 



CHAPTER I. 



DECEIVING WILD CREATURES. 



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O excel in deception is 

 not a very laudable 

 accomplishment, but the 

 heinousness of the crime 

 may, perhaps, be softened 

 in the eyes of the moralist 

 by a knowledge of the fact 

 that in this case the dupli- 

 city employed has been as 

 entirely harmless to the de- 

 ceived as it has been profit- 

 able to the deceiver. 

 Nature's children do not reveal their intmiate 

 ways to the busthng, human noise-maker, and 

 he who would seek to know something of their 

 interesting daily doings must first of all acquire 

 the faculty to observe whilst remaining un- 

 observed, and hear without being heard. The 



YOUNG LONG-TAILED 

 TIT. 



