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Our Bird Friends. 



in search of food they do not da Avdle and hang about 

 like tradesmen's errand boys, but rush round as if the 

 welfare of the whole universe depended upon their 

 individual exertions. 



In order to secure the picture of the old cock 



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Sparrow on page 16, we put some suitable food 

 down at the foot of the sweet pea sticks on which 

 he is standing, and, fixing up the camera in front, 

 attached a pneumatic tube to the shutter and retired 

 indoors to wait and watch. By-and-by along came 

 our " sitter," the air-ball at the end of the pneumatic 

 tube was squeezed, the shutter released, and the 

 Sparrow's portrait secured. A day or two afterwards 

 one of my little daughters, then only a child of six 

 years of age, saw the picture and thought that she 



