GARDEN ENEMIES 



food, bathing and drinking places, and nest- 

 ing boxes, as well as by posting signs 

 against hunters and keeping off the cats. 

 They have now learned that my place is 

 a sort of sanctuary for their kind, and they 

 return every year in ever-increasing num- 

 bers. I have not the patience to observe 

 their habits very closely, and there are 

 many birds on the place which I have never 

 seen, but have been told about by ornitho- 

 logically-minded guests who prowl around 

 with opera glasses. But even I have identi- 

 fied about sixty species of little feathered 

 friends and helpers. Some of them are very 

 numerous and so fearless that I could easily 

 tame them to eat out of my hand if it were 

 not for my little toy terrier, who despises 

 birds and always comes barking around the 

 corner at the critical moment. The birds 

 have gauged the capacity of the dog with 

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