How to Attract the Birds 



incessant, insistent cheep, cheep, from the balcony 

 nursery, I could resist the cries of hunger no longer. 

 Even the baby which had been literally snatched 



A thunderstorm weakened its mud-plastered walls 



from the jaws of death had now recovered from his 

 fright, not having received so much as a scratch, 

 and was clamouring for food as loudly as the others, 

 jerking himself upright with every cheep, as if stamp- 

 ing both feet with impatience at delay. 



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