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issued forth each evening to receive food and practise flying. 

 One of them fluttered down one night and gave us the 

 privilege of a closer inspection. 



Sometimes one will happen upon a Screech Owls' nest 

 by some fortunate chance. Two boys were walking out one 

 afternoon, early in May. Happening to notice a Flickers' 

 hole in a low stub out in a field, one of them climbed up, 

 put in his hand, and pulled out an unresisting Screech Owl. 

 They carried it home and tried to feed it on corn, which 

 was as reasonable as for themselves to eat hay ! After three 



SCREECH OWL. " COMING TO LIFE 



