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STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 



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^N "Westmoreland, England, there 

 were two groves, situated at no 

 great distance apart, one of which, 

 had in it a large colony of rooks, 

 , and the other was inhabited by herons. 

 "^C The gentleman who owned the two 

 groves cat down the one in which the herons 

 lived. The poor birds, thus turned out of 

 house and home, did much as men do some- 

 times, when they want more land, and cannot 

 get it in any other way. They went to war. 

 They said among themselves — that is, I have 

 no doubt but they had some such conversation 

 in their cabinet councils, though I frankly 

 confess I never saw the records of their con- 

 versation, history being quite silent on this 

 topic — they said among themselves, "Well, 

 here we are without a home. We have not 



