GARDEN ENEMIES 



looking down at his small foe, and call- 

 ing her all the bad names of the robin 

 vocabulary ! 



As for the other birds, they regard the 

 dog just enough to keep out of her way on 

 the ground, but have long since discovered 

 that she can neither fly nor climb a tree, 

 and need not be reckoned with more than 

 two feet up ; also that she is not really 

 hunting, and would not know what to do 

 with a bird if she caught one, but gives 

 chase chiefly to exhibit her own prowess 

 and for the fun of seeing them fly. The 

 chimney swifts even carry their bravado to 

 the point of swooping down in a big loop 

 till their wings almost touch her very head, 

 and cackling facetiously at poor Tinkie's 

 ineffectual leaps to nip them. Once, how- 

 ever, the dog had the laugh on her side, for 

 a swift fell down the parlour chimney, after 

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