CHAPTER III 



FAGGING IN THE BIRD WORLD 



THERE is a very common idea that birds, as 

 they have wings, can do just as they like, 

 and are under no sort of control, and so one 

 often hears of people who wish they were as 

 free as the birds ; but really birds have their 

 restrictions and their troubles just like any 

 one else, and in some cases they actually 

 have to work for the benefit of others who are 

 stronger or more clever than they are. 



You can see this even in London in the 

 winter time ; when the gulls are being fed by 

 people along the Thames, the small black- 

 headed gulls will come up and take the bread 

 sometimes even from their hands, but the 

 big herring-gulls are afraid to do this, so they 

 take advantage of the small gulls by letting 

 them get well out into the river with a big bit 

 of bread and then taking it away from them. 



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