There are too many differing opinions and 
moral points of view to answer such question 
assuredly in the affirmative. Apparently there 
is no way of relieving the situation by extermina- 
tion; but is it not possible to lessen their num- 
bers here on Pine Hills or elsewhere by concerted 
action toward that end? 
Birds will not tarry where they cannot have a 
home. Where they nest is their home, for there 
they rear their young. Deprive them of this 
home, and there will be no increase. Persistently 
destroy the nest and gradually they withdraw 
from the contest. Contest it will prove, for the 
English sparrow will not desert the privileges 
seized without fierce resistance. Nothing but a 
united, persevering individual effort to destroy 
these nests will avail. Every home on the Hill 
should enjoin there should be no English spar- 
row’s nest, occupied or unoccupied, within its 
domain. Permit their construction, then see that 
they are pulled down and destroyed before occu- 
pied. They will persist to the third or fourth 
attempt in rebuilding, then move on. Let each 
neighbor see that it be beyond his boundary, and 
so crowd them out and off of Pine Hills. 
There is no esthetic side to this question of 
good-riddance to the English sparrow. It is 
fully practical. The law of the English sparrow 
is not the law of man or other birds. It is a law 
unto themselves, and practically reads, “ What 
is yours is mine, save by my consent,’ and they 
enforce it relentlessly to the extreme. ‘“ When 
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