Hedgerow Life 
farmer’s best friends, for they eat im- 
mense numbers of mice and rats without 
molesting the rabbits. 
The night-loving owls are hardly 
hedgerow birds, as they don’t live in the 
hedge itself; but in the hollow trees 
which often grow in the hedgerows they 
make their homes. 
If you were to peep into the hole 
in which they had chosen to live, you 
would probably see the old owls; that 
is, if you were very quiet indeed, for 
they are not always quite so sleepy as 
they look, and are quite wide awake 
enough to fly out of one hole while you 
are looking in at another ; and however 
quiet you were they certainly wouldn't 
stay long to be looked at. But their 
young ones would be there, and they are 
the fluffiest and the most comical-looking 
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