LESSONS FROM AN ENGLISH SPARROW 



ANY people say they 

 love Nature, but as 

 they have little time 

 to go into the country they have to 

 depend on books for most of their 

 information concerning birds, flowers, and 

 other forms of life. There is, however, no 

 reason why one should not, even in the heart 

 of a great city, begin to cultivate his powers of obser- 

 vation. Let us take, for example, the omnipresent Eng- 

 lish sparrow, Most of us probably know the difference 



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