Tick-Tock " Talk 



time, from side to side. Now that we 

 have well resolved that we shall no 

 longer patronize distinctively German 

 industries, we do not propose to lend 

 further aid or comfort to Harz Moun- 

 tain nests, and so our canary is china 

 too! Think of the seed we save! We 

 used to buy it by the bag for a bunch 

 of yellow warblers we once possessed in 

 town. Of course we always have 

 "Jim" Mann's annual congressional 

 donation of packets to help out some, 

 but nowadays these have to go to the 

 sparrows. 



I once saw a red bird — the kind they 

 have in Kansas — wired in for the sup- 

 posed gratification of the inmates of a 

 certain human habitation. I say in- 

 mates, because that is the correct 

 term, I believe, to apply to those 

 incarcerated persons who are crazy. 

 Of course no sane person would think 

 of killing thus by inches one of the 

 finest of God's feathered creations. 

 Our wild-wood bird with black tail, 

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