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SOME OF HIS LESSONS 
Ir is very easy to catch the birds teaching 
their little ones to exercise the wings and to 
fly together. You will see the young birds 
sitting quietly on fences or trees, when all at 
once the parents begin to fly around, with 
strange loud calls. In a minute every young- 
ster will fly out and joim them. Around and 
around they all go, hard as they can, till their 
little wing's are tired, and then they come down 
and alight again. 
Once I saw a young bird who did not go 
when his parents called. All the others flew 
around many times, and I suppose that young 
one thought he would not be noticed. 
But mothers’ eyes are sharp, and his mother 
saw him. So when she came back, she flew 
right at her naughty son, and knocked him off 
his perch. The next time she called, he flew 
with the rest. This was a crow mother. 
I have seen a bluebird just out of the nest, 
