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Those soft yellow lips will soon turn dark and hard 
from use, just as a real baby’s feet lose their pink soft- 
ness and grow callous when the child goes barefoot a 
while. 
Altogether, bird children are very interesting, and 
one who loves them never gets tired of watching them. 
There is something new and charming to learn every 
day. We wonder that there are any unhappy or cross 
or sulky people in the world, when they may have the 
birds to teach them better. 
There is many a kind little boy who picks up a child 
bird and puts it in a high place out of reach of cats 
and naughty boys. These may be sure that the mother 
bird will find her young one, and you may hear her 
thanking you, if you listen. Besides, every time a 
boy is good to a child bird he has made his own child- 
hood richer and happier. 
O happy little bird-child, full of life and glee, 
Won’t you stay this summer in the yard with me? 
You shall have some berries when the berries grow ; 
Berries don’t hurt children — mother told me so. 
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CHAPTER VIII. 
HOW BABY BIRDS ARE FED. 
SoME of the baby birds are nurslings, like the lambs 
and colts. They are dependent upon what the parent 
birds first eat and digest. Others eat just what the 
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