OUR WINTER BIRDS 



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INTRODUCTION 



THE BIRDS AND YOU 



HEN we draw down the shades on a 

 winter night we seem to divide the 

 world into two parts. On one side 

 He cold and darkness ; on the other, 

 warmth and light. Outside, It may 

 be snowing; the wind howls, the 

 windows rattle before Its fierce blasts. Inside, a fire 

 crackles cheerfully on the hearth; there is protection 

 from the storm, food, and comfort. 



How fares it then with those on the other side of 

 the window? What are our friends, the birds, doing 

 out there in the blackness? They have no fireside, 

 no cosy chairs to nestle in, no one to prepare a 

 warm supper for them. An evergreen bough, a hol- 

 low limb, or even a snow-drift is all the shelter they 

 can hope for; and if they have not had good luck 



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