THE CARDINAL 257 



the young and attends to their training when they are 

 able to fly. 



There is no bird with which it is easier to make friends 

 than with the cardinal. I have a friend who without 

 thought began throwing crumbs from the table into the 

 yard near the house. In a few days the cardinals were 

 feeding there and of their own will almost immediately 

 formed the habit of alighting on the window sill to beg for 

 crumbs. Undoubtedly seeing his reflection in the glass, 

 the male cardinal first began pecking at the window think- 

 ing he was fighting another bird, but as this attracted the 

 attention of the family who thought that he was asking for 

 food and provided it, he soon learned to come to peck at 

 this window till he was fed. When insects and berries 

 became plentiful, however, he stopped coming, though he 

 continued to be very tame and played about on the prem- 

 ises a good deal. 



