discrimination. After we have charmed them into 

 our lives we must devise means of holding them, study 

 their needs, never lessen xtheir faith in us, keep a 

 watchful eye for neighbors' cats, grow soft of foot, 

 and sweeter of soul. 



And for our service and love, one hermit thrush 

 alone can repay us a thousandfold by his celestial 

 song in the hush of a twilight in June. 



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