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of whom the parent bird hunts over fields and 

 hedges, are what they trust to most. The sparrow- 

 hawk certainly helps to keep up the balance of 

 things, for where he and others of his species 

 have been killed off matters have not gone so well 

 afterwards. Man has claimed, and set on one 

 side, all that he can get from bountiful Mother 

 Nature. Who, then, can wonder if other creatures 

 try to take from him their own small share when 

 they can ? One of them I know will do this when- 

 ever he gets a chance, and that is the bold sparrow- 

 hawk. 



