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thorn or anything else, one cannot imagine. The use of 

 bird-lime we fancy, is now very much a thing of the 

 past. There was a man in the days of our boyhood who 

 lived near Ripley, our home in that far-off time, who 

 prided himself greatly on his bird-lime. He told us how 

 he one day spread some liberally along the top shoots of 

 his garden hedge, and, hearing a tremendous twittering, 

 presently went to see how he had fared. The birds, 

 hopelessly entangled, made a supreme effort at escape 

 when he appeared, the result being that his hedge was 

 uprooted, and the last he saw of it was its being carried 

 off by the birds out in the direction of Woking. Assuming 

 this story to be true it speaks volumes for the strength 

 of his bird-lime. 



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