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all kinds of new bugs and worms and blights that dis- 
courage the farmers and leave but little profit in their 
crops? As you learn to watch wild birds and their habits, 
and realize the way in which they work for their living the 
year round, you will see that it is largely the lack of these 
old residents, these birds who were here before man came, 
that allows all the new-fangled bugs to gain such headway. 
“Now, while it is quite easy for all of us to have some 
sort of a lunch-counter, either on a window-ledge, tree 
trunk, or shed roof, — anywhere, in short, where cats will 
not venture, — feeding the larger game-birds is not such 
a simple matter, for until they thoroughly understand our 
motives, they will not come to us; we must take food to 
them. 
‘Birds that are hunted everywhere, for at least two 
months in a year, cannot be expected the day after the 
season closes to come boldly to our houses for food, as if 
they could consult a calendar, and say to one another, 
‘To-day is December first, we may go and take a walk in 
the open road in safety.’ 
“Neither would they be safe, for there are always, 
I am sorry to say, cowards in every township who will 
set snares, and get by stealth what they dare not take 
openly. And, of the two, I think the snare a greater 
danger to the poor birds than the gun.” 
“The trouble with feeding game-birds away from 
houses would be that, even if you knew their runs, and 
I think I know some pretty well, the feed would most 
likely blow away or be snowed under unless they ate it 
right away,” said Jack Todd, Tommy’s second eldest 
brother. 
