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Glass, old bits of broken crockery and such stuff help to gratify 

 ''Mag's" vanity. It would be exaggerating to say that magpies 

 are of very great economic value, but they are mighty interesting 

 and we can't afford to lose them. 



Caged canary birds are not very valuable economically, but 

 there are many people who enjoy them and that is the only justi- 

 fication for depriving them of their liberty. It would take some 

 one stronger in logic than I am to justify such a procedure in any 

 event. But then "God made the world for man alone" is the 

 theory and religion of many men. 



