The Burrowing Owl 



tendant cultivation bear hard upon them, yet they are able to maintain 

 themselves in out-of-the-way places, and in the shelter of fence rows. 

 Squirrel poison claims occasional victims, especially the bisulphide variety ; 

 and the Owls will disappear from sections where poison is persistently used. 



Taken in Oregon 



Photo by Finley &° Bohlman 



BROTHERS 



For Younger Readers 



IF YOU WERE A BIRD I don't believe you'd want to live in a 

 hole in the ground, would you? It's warm there, no doubt, but it 

 must be stuffy and dark; and oh! supposing it should rain too much 

 at once! But this bird likes it. He was brought up that way, and 

 he doesn't know any better. We call him the Billy Owl because, 

 because — well, now, I don't know just why we do call him the Billy 

 Owl, but I guess it's because he is so funny. When he hears us chil- 

 dren coming, no matter how quietly, he scrambles up out of his hole 



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