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WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



an exceedingly lucky thing for the human race 

 that its members are not troubled with appetites 

 similar in capacity to those of robins. One 'day 

 I dug worms for a redbreast that kindly allows 

 me to share the tenancy of my garden with him, 

 and by a process of careful calculation I worked 

 out a sum which showed that if an ordinary 

 healthy man possessed an appetite similar to that 

 of a redbreast, he would be able to consume a 

 barrowload of sausages every day. 



A FAVOURITE DITCH 

 FOR SNIPE IN WINTER. 



