SOME FRIENDLY BIRDS 



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TE have all heard the pack chanting : 



Now this is the law of the jungle — as old and 



as true as the sky ; 

 And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the 



Wolf that shall break it must die. 

 As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law 



runneth forward and back — 

 For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the 



strength of the Wolf is the Pack. 



We ha^'e seen the law at woik in herd and 

 drove, in school and flock, and everywhere it is 

 the great law of necessity— obey or die. It 

 obtains among men as well as among beasts and 

 birds. But the man-pack has broken, because 

 we are no longer mere wolves, and a higlier law 

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