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Our Bird Friends. 



at an old cock Sparrow or laugh at an angry Green- 

 finch with equal ease. He was a fine strong fellow. 

 Another we named Xo-Tail Johnny, because he 

 had lost all his tail feathers by some accident. 

 He generally turned up to tea about four o'clock 

 every afternoon. 



As the poor Blue Tits had to shiver round and 

 ., content themselves 



with an occasional 

 grain of maize snatched 

 from the fowl run, and 

 cleverly hammered to 

 bits on a neighbouring 

 telegraph Avire, Ave had 

 to organise an over- 

 flow table for them. 

 We passed a piece of 

 black cotton thread 

 through the kernel of 

 a Barcelona nut, and 

 then suspended it from 

 a stump. The little 

 chaps seized the dan- 

 oiino' bit of food with 

 both feet, and then 

 hammered away at it 

 whilst hanging abso- 

 lutely upside down, as 

 shown in the accom- 

 panying picture. 



BLLE TIT rEEDIXG OX SUSPENDED 

 KERXEL OF XUT. 



