OUR FRIENDS, THE BIRDS. 
AURA is a little girl who is so fortunate as 
Ig to live in a beautiful suburb of a large city, 
where birds are much more numerous than 
is usual in a suburban town. From her ear- 
liest childhood she noticed the birds as they flitted 
about in the trees of the large garden where she 
spent the long bright summer days, and, as she 
grew older, she would leave her play at any time to 
listen to a bird’s song. 
Laura’s aunt is a teacher of Greek in a 
woman’s college. One day, when her work had 
been usually tiresome, she sat down on the window 
seat in her room and idly watched a little bird as 
it flew in and out of a tree near by. She became 
interested in her little neighbor and soon found out 
its name. She listened to its song and in her daily 
walks often found others of the same species; then 
she began to listen for other bird notes, and finally 
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