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to our garden-table each winter, for they go 

 straight to the place where they ate their last 

 breakfast, as if they remembered. 



Farmers think they " remember," too, and they 

 accuse the robins of stealing things. They do 

 not stop to think that every young robin is fed 

 its own weight in insects every day it lives. And 

 most of these insects are enemies of the farmers' 

 crops. 



