BIRD FRIENDSHIPS 



IT is not the sight of mere jnimbeivs that inter- 

 ests ns as the ''gathering swallows twitter 

 in the skies," bnt rather the gathering itself, and 

 the twittering — the feeling of kinsliii) and eom- 

 mon interest which we see in the flocking. 

 These birds are a|)i3arently social creatnres ; and 

 social feelings are human. By so much are we 

 and the swallows one. 



It shows a very pleasing C|nality in bird na- 

 ture, this need which leads them to flock ; and 

 it seems sometimes to be a deeper, more human 

 feeling than mere bird-of-a-feather interest— 

 sometbing close akin to friendship. 



The autumn flocking of the swallows and the 

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