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upon by tenant; but nevertheless the stranger paid two more visits during the day, 

 always meeting with a disagreeably warm reception. I pulled out the sparrows' nest 

 with eggs and hoped to establish a peaceful summer resort, but with tremendous energy, 

 ecmal to a good many pounds of pressure per square inch, the pair promptly began re- 

 building. The Martin returned several times daily and within a week or ten days 

 brought two other seemingly young birds to see the establishment. They inspected 

 several chambers and twittered very sociably when inside or out, although the cock 

 sparrow sought help among his fellow bandits and brought several of them to assist in 

 banishing the strangers. 



I tried to shoot the trouble-makers but they would alight on the far side of the 

 house and hang their heads down underneath it just far enough to keep an eye on me 

 without affording me a target. Again I threw out the nest but with the same result as 

 though I had thrown a rubber ball against a wall — they were back immediately with all 

 sorts of building material. 



The Martins continued their daily visits and ultimately numbered six but they 

 showed no disposition to nest and about the middle of July their visits ceased altogether. 



Do you think I can confidently expect this same delegation to take possession next 

 spring? 



I enclose a photograph showing four of them upon the house. 



Very truly yours, 



Sam'l \V. LippEncott. 



Miss Josephine F. Osborne and her aunt, Mrs. Eliza \Y. Osborne, 

 Auburn, X. Y., bought two Style 6 houses, one for replacing an old 

 house, and the other for erecting on Mrs. Osborne's grounds, to entice 

 the birds there. 



Their very interesting letters, describing their success, follow: 



Auburn, X. Y„ July 11, 1910. 

 D< ar Mr. Jacobs: 



The houses came in good shape, and the one that was to take the place of the old 

 house on Garden St., which must have been there for thirty years or more, was put up 

 on the 14th of April. The next day, <>ne male Martin was seen looking around the 

 house, and the day after that there were seven or eight. Now they are established 

 and brooding, I think. [ have not been down there to make observations for some time. 



You can imagine my great pleasure to find they had accepted the new house with- 

 out a murmur, so far as any of us observed. 



Two or three days after the house on Garden St. was occupied, you can fancy my 

 surprise and pleasure to hear, early one morning, the calls and whistling of two or three 

 Martins here on my Aunt's place, looking over the other house, winch Mrs. Osborne had 

 put on her grounds. They also came to stay, others joining them later, so that now 

 there are about eight birds nesting. I think the birds that have taken up with the 

 house here, <>n my Aunt's ground, are supplied from last year's overflow of young at 

 tlie old house on Garden St. 



Just to think that all these years have gone by, when we might have had swarms of 



