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dress, be becomes violent, rude of speech, sanguinary 

 in acts and profane in utterance. 



"MORE LIKE HIS DAD EVERY DAY." 



When such versatility of words and deportment are 

 questioned by the fair French maid Jeannotte of the 

 beautiful but faltering Julie de Varion — he answers: 



"My dear, I have two hearts and dispositions. When I 

 speak kindly or am modest and so good it is because I am 

 following the dictations of mother's heart and teachings; but 

 when rude and bloodthirsty, or wicked in my wants, my 

 words and deeds are inspired by a plutonian father's heart, 

 which impels to arts black as Cimmerian gloom." 



Tlie thought has occurred to the writer that per- 

 haps Jays are two-hearted animals, for seme observ- 

 ers seem to have studied principally Jays with good 

 dispositions and mother's hearts, while on the other 

 hand investigators, it would appear, have been able 

 to find Jays chiefly of bad thoughts, and deeds of vio- 

 lence, transmitted, of course, from vicious sires, for, 

 most happily, it is rare to find a loyal wife and mother, 

 true and pure, who would teach her offspring to do ill. 



THEY ARE OMNIVOROUS. 



The Jays, like other birds of the family, are omnivor- 

 ous in their food-habits. They consume much vege- 

 table food, such as cereals, mast, berries and fruits; 

 tlieir animal food comprises" numerous insects and 

 their larvae, with spiders, snails, lizards, fish, tree 

 frogs, mice, birds and eggs. Oonsiderable mineral 

 matter, sand, gravel, etc., is often fmind in their stom 

 achs. 



