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can be instructed only in music are of a different 

 description, their native notes are in general sweet, and 

 they have not the mischievous habits of the others. 



THE JACKDAW, 



Though not in itself a very interesting bird, acquires 

 a sort of interest from the places that it frequents ; 

 and the hazard to which boys will sometimes expose 

 themselves in order to get at its nest. We have had 

 pointed out to us, in a town of the North, an old man, 

 who in his youth performed, in jackdaw nesting, one 

 of the most adventurous feats that we ever heard of, 

 only it is not to be supposed that in the thoughtlessness 

 of a boy he was apprehensive of the danger ; and that may 

 have been, as it often has in similar cases, the means of 

 his escape. In the very centre of the town there was 

 a gothic tower, the battlements of which were about 

 one hundred and fifty feet above the pavement, and 

 the dentiles under the parapet were favorite nesting- 



