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It is said the Africans and Spaniards keep 

 crickets in cages, for the sake of their music, as 

 we do singing birds. 



tflnna. What a shame, to take the poor little 

 things out of the fields, where they are so happy, 

 and confine them in a close cage. ! 



Harriet. It is no worse than keeping birds 

 in cages. When I was in the country last sum- 

 mer, and saw the birds flying about, and heard 

 them singing in the trees, I thought how wicked 

 it would be for me to take one of the pretty little 

 creatures, and shut it up in a cage. I saw, too, 

 what I never saw before a nest in a bush, with 

 several young birds in it. I often went to see 

 them, but was very careful not to go near 

 enough to frighten them. One day I saw the 

 old bird coming toward the nest with a worm 

 in her mouth ; I hid myself behind a bush, and 

 stood quite still. The little ones all began to 

 chuckle, and the old bird dropped the worm 

 into the mouth of one of them, and then flew 

 away and brought another, and another, until 

 she had fed them all. The little ones seemed so 

 glad to be fed, and the mother so happy in feeding 

 them ; and then I thought, suppose I was to 

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