MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



something of their iniquities. Let me tell 

 you what I saw. Remember that I am 

 making no plea either for their extermin- 

 ation or preservation, merely stating what 

 is to me an interesting fact. 



Through the winter we strew our ver- 

 anda-top with crumbs, knowing how wel- 

 come these little lunches are to the often 

 sorely-tried feathered visitors of the sea- 

 son. For the benefit of a certain quadru- 

 ped, of which I will tell you later, we always 

 keep a supply of cracked walnuts in a 

 sheltered corner of a window-sill on this 

 same veranda. Day after day sparrows and 

 juncos gorged themselves on these dainties, 

 when the opportunity for doing so pre- 

 sented itself. But the juncos were served 

 first, sparrows awaiting their turn until 

 their superiors had feasted. 



One day there appeared on the veranda- 

 roof two little olive-coated " brindle birds," 

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