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Animal Fashions 



[SECOND WEEK 



is not available for some secondary use in Nature's realm; 

 and the hairs that fall from animals are not all left to 

 return unused to their original elements. The sharp eyes 

 of birds spy them out, and thus the lining to many a nest 

 is furnished. I knew of one feathered seeker of cast-off 



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clothing which met disaster through trying to get a supply 

 at first hand a sparrow was found dead, tangled in the 

 hairs of a pony's tail. The chickadee often lights on the 

 backs of domestic cattle and plucks out hair with which 

 to line some snug cavity near by for his nest. Before the 

 cattle came his ancestors were undoubtedly in the habit of 



