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States, soaring about high in the air, looking 
for their food. 
What they eat is so very unpleasant to us 
that we are apt to despise the birds. But we 
should cherish and feel grateful to them in- 
stead. For they are doing us the greatest kind- 
ness. In many of the hot countries people 
could not live, if these most useful birds were 
killed. 
Some persons think buzzards find their food 
by seeing it, and others are just as sure that 
they smell it. Perhaps they use both senses. 
