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sionally some are downright fools. You can 

 hoodwink a wood-thrush, but it is a smart man 

 that deceives a cat-bird, and never the second 

 time. English sparrows know a trap however 

 natural its appearance, and know my gun as 

 something very different from a walking-stick. 

 The peewee is confiding, but its big, yawping 

 country cousin down the lane among the apple- 

 trees, the great crest, is always suspicious. The 

 chippy that nested by the parlor window took 

 crumbs from my fingers ; but the humming- 

 bird dashed at my eyes when I drew too near 

 its nest I never saw a chickadee that was 

 not distinctly friendly ; but the crested tit says 

 there is elbow-room enough for both it and 

 myself, and demands so much neutral territory 

 between us. The lines can be more closely 

 drawn. There is marked difference among in- 

 dividuals of the same species. You do not get 

 at this from a chance acquaintance, meeting 

 birds to-day and never afterwards. Circum- 

 stances must bring you together and keep you 

 associated for a season, and then, after such 

 an experience, the whole world will appear 

 to you in a different light. To annoy birds 



