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IN NATURE'S WAYS 



insect-eaters ; and if it were not for their ceaseless war 

 on insects we cannot imagine how there could be room 

 in the world for any other but insect life. When- 

 ever birds are destroyed and harassed by man, 

 they are revenged, and the destroyers are punished 

 by the devastation of their trees and crops by insects, 

 by caterpillars, or by plagues of mice. 



When robin redbreast goes hopping along beside the 

 gardener, when he is digging, he is co-operating with 

 a two-legged animal, as the rook is working for the 

 farmer when he follows the plough. We value birds 

 (some of us) for their beauty, their charm, and their 

 voices perhaps we seldom appreciate the work they 

 do for us, and how without this work there would be 

 no place for us on earth. 



Wagtail: "Good-bye, I must go and make my old cow comfortable. 

 Starling : " And ! must be trotting along to look after the sheep. ' 



