LITTLE SOLOMON OTUS 



repair by rather an able carpenter, — a woodpecker, — 

 still, it had been Uved in before, and might have been 

 improved by having some of the rubbish picked up and 

 thrown out. But do you think Solomon spent any of his 

 precious evenings that way? No, nor Airs. Otus either. 

 They moved in just as it was, in the most happy-go- 

 lucky sort of way. 



Well, whatever a crow or other particular person 

 might think of that nest, we should agree that a father 

 and mother owl must be left to manage affairs for their 

 3^oung as Nature has taught them; and if those five ador- 

 able babies of Solomon did n't prove that the way they 





Those five adorable babies of Solomon. 

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