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FLASHLIGHTS ON NATURE 



you train up a butcher-bird in the way he should 

 go, when he is old he will not depart from it. 

 Lessons of cruelty are here imbibed I cannot 



NO. 6. THE NAUGHTY BUTCHER-BIRD" I WANT THAT FLY ! " 



truthfully say, "with his mother's milk/' but at 

 least from his father's and mother's example. 

 While the mother-bird sits upon her nest (as 

 you see her in No. 7), the little chicks are fed 



