Hedgerow Life 
to ask if you ever heard of it before. 
Perhaps you didn’t know that any bird 
kept a butcher’s shop. But this bird 
does ; and if you are lucky you may 
perhaps see the butcher-bird, and even 
find its store of bees and beetles and 
little birds hung up for its future use. It 
is really more of a larder than a butcher’s 
shop, for the things are not for sale, as 
you may suppose, but only for its own 
consumption. Anda queer sight it Is. 
On the sharp-pointed thorns of the hedge 
there may be a couple of big, fat, yellow- 
banded bumble-bees, and a large beetle. 
Near at hand on another thorn is a 
mouse or a young bird, a nestling hedge- 
sparrow or robin perhaps, which it has 
dragged out of the nest, or caught soon 
after leaving it, before it was strong 
enough on the wing to escape. It has 
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