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also of glass. All kinds of winter birds and a 

 number of summer birds, too, come to this house, 

 and they don't mind the motion of it any more 

 than we mind the motion of an express train, 

 when we're sitting in the dining-car. 



After we have been attracting the birds for a 

 little while, every corner of the garden will have 

 some interesting association connected with the 

 work, every device or appliance we have used 

 will recall some delightful or amusing incident. 

 The mere mention of our " Weathercock" re- 

 minds me of a joke it once helped me to play. 

 Mrs. Baynes had for some time been busy color- 

 ing a set of artificial birds made of cardboard 

 which she intended to present to a school. She 

 had begun work on the blue jay, and asked me if 

 I could find for her a good picture of the bird 

 from which she could sketch the markings of the 

 wings. I found several but they would not do, 

 chiefly because they showed the wings folded, 

 whereas the bird she was making had the wings 

 extended. At last I said, jokingly, "Well, I 

 see there is nothing for me to do but go out into 

 the garden and catch you a live one." With that 

 I walked from her room into my study, and 

 looking out of the window saw a flock of blue 

 jays feeding in the "Weathercock." At that 

 moment something startled them and out they 



