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thing to eat, and I must say that the trick is su- 

 perlatively funny ; all the more so because of its 

 decidedly human air. 



Even when Master Red-head has grown as large 

 as his mother he will often run after her and shriek 

 for his dinner. But when his stomach is full of 

 tidbits, he and his playmates have rare sport to- 

 bogganing (though they always perfer to go uphill 

 instead of down) on the trunks of trees, playing 

 hide-and-seek, and flying race. There are many 

 other things that might be said about this clever 

 bird. He deserves an ode all to himself, and in 

 some respects might claim it as justly as the sky- 

 lark or the nightingale. 



[Note. — T take pleasure in acknowlcdfjinpr the courtesy of the editor"? of 

 the Youth's Companion in publishing this paper, at my request, in time to 

 be included in this volume.] 



