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take all they can find in the way of eggs. What 

 they do with them all I do not know, but some 

 will thread them on strings and hang them round 

 their cottage wall ; others, owing to superstition, 

 will not allow them to go inside their house, and 

 they are then hung in festoons in a sheltered part 



YOUNG THRUSHES. 



of the garden. At one farmhouse I knew of in 

 Cambridgeshire, the children of the farmer used 

 to bring in all eggs they found and place them 

 in large pickle-jars, there to remain until some 

 accident destroyed them. Among these there 

 would be some really good eggs, but the best 



