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P'LASH LIGHTS ON NATURE 



you train up a butcher-bird in the way he should 

 go, wlieii he is old he will not depart from it. 

 Lessons of cruelty are here imbibed — I cannot 



NO. 6.— THE NAUGHTY BUTCHER-BIRD—"! WANT THAT FI.Y !" 



truthfully say, " with his mother's milk," but at 

 least from his father's and mother's example. 

 While the mother-bird sits upon her nest (as 

 you see her in No. 7), the little chicks are fed 



