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However, to be highly commended to every man and 

 woman who has the time and opportunity to give 

 the birds the very little care they demand. The 

 scraps from the family table will go far toward 

 supplying the rations of a small flock and the sat- 

 isfaction of eating eggs laid the day previous may 

 well be imagined by those unfortunate people who 

 are never certain whether their breakfast egg was 

 laid a month or a year before it appeared on the 

 table. 



