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erable prejudice against the buzzards, of whose ways, unclean 
from our human standpoint, I had read. Yet no true nature- 
lover can afford to despise any part of the natural economy, 
and I found that there is much to be said for the buzzards. 
TURKEY BUZZARD. “A FINE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH 
Probably most birds have habits which would not bear close 
inspection by the squeamishly inclined. We can well afford 
to gloss over or euphemize some things in nature which 
strike us as disagreeable, realizing that the natural economy 
is more reasonable and normal than our artificial prejudices. 
The person who shudders at every wonderful insect and 
loathes the toad, lizard, and harmless snake, and screams at 
a bright-eyed mouse, is profoundly to be pitied. The natural 
world to such will be a sealed book and an array of horrors. 
