INVITING THE BIRDS 



UR love of pets and desire to have 

 them about us often brings beneath 

 our roof animals which are not on 

 the best of terms with one another. 

 We may be equally fond of our cat 

 and our terrier, while they exhibit 

 only armed neutrality toward one another. Our 

 setter's instinct to capture chickens may never be 

 overcome by training. Remember, therefore, that 

 pussy, purring so cosily by your fireside, was bom 

 a bird killer, and few indeed are the cats which can 

 be trained to observe the game-laws. Nor should 

 we expect them to do so. 



A host who knowingly exposes his guests to the 

 danger of death is surely less a host than a mur- 

 derer. Unless, therefore, we can be reasonably sure 

 that the birds will be as safe near our homes as they 

 are in their own haunts, it is far better for us to go 

 to them rather than to ask them to come to us. 

 But cats are everywhere; in field and forest, as 



well as lawn and garden. If, therefore, we can con- 



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