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issued forth each evening to receive food and practise flying. 
One of them fluttered down one night and gave us the 
privilege of a closer inspection. 
Sometimes one will happen upon a Screech Owls’ nest 
by some fortunate chance. Two boys were walking out one 
afternoon, early in May. Happening to notice a Flickers’ 
hole in a low stub out in a field, one of them climbed up, 
put in his hand, and pulled out an unresisting Screech Owl. 
They carried it home and tried to feed it on corn, — which 
was as reasonable as for themselves to eat hay ! After three 
SCREECH OWL. “COMING TO LIFE” 
