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Oi'i^ IUrd Friends. 



duiul wliilst so eiiiJ-aij-ed tliroujjli riipturinLJ' suiut' Idood- 

 vessel. I remember a sad accident of this kind 

 li:i])penino- to a ,i(ifted Tlirnsh tliat used to sini^^ on 

 a tree-top in a friends n'arden not far from my liomo. 



LESSEU JILALK HACKKD fU LLS [p. l7-\ 



Strange as it may seem, lliey also sinir li'«tm an^j^er 

 in some instances. Last smnmor I found a (iai'din 

 Warlder's nest, and every lime tlu' lien was piii olV 

 licr t'ULi's. in or(U'r that tli<* canujra mi^lit !•(' locussrd 

 and made ready for her l<> Ix' photographed on licr 

 return, she treated us to a \ery ])>^or imitation ot' a few 

 bars of her mate's l»;'ant iinl son''- Ix'I'orc she coiniiK'nccd 



