64 OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. 
bread and butter and cracker crumbs. ‘They actually 
picked the butter from the bread, just as all children 
do who are very fond of butter, feeling sure of another 
“spread”? when that is gone. In less than an hour 
Sona SPARROW. 
that table was cleared of every bit of food. The lin- 
nets took the walnuts and what was left of the cookies. 
Our birds’ restaurant was a success. If we could 
have charged them the regular price for their meals, 
we should have made money at the business. But 
though we knew that they had pockets, we had never 
