40 FRIENDS WORTH KNOWING. 
negroes at the South always have an abundance of differ- 
ent birds about their cabins by simply hanging up empty 
HOUSE-WREN. 
gourds; and a cigar-box with a hole in it is all-sufficient. 
But you must not be disappointed if the house-wrens ut- 
terly dispossess the bluebirds of the houses you have put 
