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he had found two hooks besides his own in the mouth 

 of a blackbird he had taken from his teagle. 



This method of slaying the small birds, most com- 

 mon in seasons of snow and frost, and practised with- 



OLD HOUSES, ST. IVES 



out a qualm by the pious natives of all ages from the 

 small shiny-faced boy to the hoary-headed ancient 

 who can no longer take his seat in a boat a method 

 one would imagine which even the most hardened 

 Italian, hungering for the flesh of robins, tomtits and 

 jenny wrens, would be ashamed to follow is not the 



