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Field mice and small birds form the principal part of his food, though 

 occasionally he is known to enter the chicken-house after darkness has 

 fallen and tear the throats of nice fat hens. Of course depredations of 

 this nature are resorted to, only when he is desperately hungry. 



He is held in special contempt by his feathered neighbors and when 



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For he is (t ple(isi»(j hinl ni/fi his grrnf intelligent eyes of dliiiost hunuin expression. '^ 



