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made up for during the longer period when 

 they are doing good in many ways. A good old 

 motto is 'Live and Let Live.'" 



No doubt all pigeons feed to a large extent 

 on grain, but the diet of some kinds at least 

 comprises the seeds of many weeds. No one 

 would suggest a return to the six-and-twenty 

 thousand well-stocked dovecotes of four cent- 

 uries ago; but there is no saying what revenge 

 the whirligig of time may not bring round. A 

 day may come when dovecotes falling into ruin 

 will be repaired, when architectural journals 

 will give plans and elevations of ''desirable" 

 dovecotes, and the village carpenter add pot- 

 ence-making to the numerous branches of his 

 trade. 



At Marske-by-the-Sea, on the estate of the 

 Marquis of Zetland, is an interestingoctagonal 

 brick dovecote, with a slated roof of the same 

 shape; in one side of the roof is a small dormer 

 window with nine entrance-holes, arranged in 

 rows of three. It is a large building, each wall 

 measuring eleven feet, while to the eaves the 

 height is twenty-four feet. There is a string- 

 course half-way up the walls. 



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