the premises, she introduces herself by telling her name oyer 

 and over. Perhaps she needs no introduction, for doubtless 

 she was there last year and she has now come back to cheer 

 and help her human friends again. 



Immediately, she takes up her summer's task of waging 

 unceasing warfare upon the destructive insects of tree and 

 garden. Never once does she exact the smallest measure of toll 

 of fruit or grain for her labor. A Flycatcher by nature, she 

 rids the air of unnumbered gnats, flies and bugs which she 

 takes upon the wing. All she asks in return for her services 

 is a place on a beam in a barn or under a bridge where she may 

 build her nest and rear her young. This she does with such 

 patience and devotion that she deserves the title of the "Model 

 Mother" among birds. In October she returns to the South. 



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