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the time we dress and go into the garden, they are inspecting the old home, 

 and soon will be carrying in new material to repair it. 



These useful and interesting birds would have gone on increasing and 

 forming new friendships with man but for the advent of the English Sparrow, 

 who fights them away and takes possession of their nesting-places, unless 

 we have fixed for them a box or tin can with an opening so small that the 



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Sparrow cannot enter. An English Sparrow was seen to enter a Wren's house, 

 pull the Wren out, and drop her exhausted to the ground, when the good 

 woman who saw it stayed home from an afternoon's visit, that she might 

 protect the Wrens, which was accomplished only by shooting the Sparrows. 



Very disastrous has been the persecution of the Wrens by the Sparrows. 

 Mr. Ora Knight, in his "Birds of Maine," tells us that they became scarce in 



