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WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



they deserve if we see them in our garden ; as 

 for the boys, we try to teach them better, or take 

 up their attention some w T ay until the good little 



YOUNG MOCKING-BIRD. 



girls have a chance to pick up the crying young 

 birds. 



Young birds can be trusted to the girls and 

 some boys. You can place them up in a tangled 

 shrub, never back in the nest, for they will tum- 

 ble right out again. The best way is to keep an 

 eye on the little things by day, and put them out 

 of reach at night, in your own house perhaps. 



Young mockers get their feathers very early, 

 and are soon able to keep out of harm's way. 



