molested, and everybody should make nesting places for the wrens' at least. Bad 

 English sparrows get into ''Jenny Wren's" nest while she is out eating insects, and 

 when she returns she does not have a fair show to fight the intruder and run him 

 out. You can make a nest which "Jenny \\*ren" will like very much and into 

 which the sparrow cannot go. This may be done as follows: Take an old tomato 

 can or corn can and lay a quarter of a dollar down on the end which was not cut 

 open. With pencil, mark around close to the quarter. Now with a pocket knife 

 cut on this mark until the piece the size of the quarter is almost cut out. Bend 

 this piece down for a lighting board. Xow nail the opposite end of this can 

 firmly under the eaves of a house, barn, or outbuilding, or on a tree or post high 

 enough that robber cats cannot disturb, and you have a most excellent wren house. 

 Xail up a half dozen such cans, some in the shade and some in the sun, for 

 "Jenny Wren" seems ''fickle" in her choice of a nest. Once having obtained a 

 pair of these fine little birds, they will return to you year after year. It will give 

 you a great deal of pleasure to observe the interesting habits of ^^Tens, and to 

 hear their sweet songs, particularly when you think that these songs are made 

 out of the destructive caterpillars which "Jenny Wren" obtains from the gardens, 

 orchards and fields. 



The Migration of Birds 



One of the most special appointments of the Creator, as to birds, and which 

 nothing but His chosen design and corresponding ordainment can explain, is the 

 law, that so many kinds shall migrate from one country to another, and most 

 commonly at vast distances from each other. They might have l^een all framed 

 to breed, be bom, live and die in the same region, as occurs to* some, and as 

 quadrupeds and insects do. But He has chosen to make them travel from one 

 climate to another, with unerring precision, from an irresistible instinct, with a 

 wonderful courage, with an untiring mobility, and in a right and never-failing 

 direction. For this purpose, they cross oceans without fear, and with a persever- 

 ing exertion that makes our most exhausting labors a comparative amusement. 

 Philosophy in vain endeavors to account for the extraordinary phenomenon. It 

 cannot discover any adequate physical reason. A\'armer temperatures are not 

 essentially necessary to incubation, nor always the object of the migration : for 

 the snow-bunting, though a bird of song, has the same taste or constitution for 

 the chilling weather which the majority recede from. We can only resolve all 

 these astonishing journeys into the appointment of the Creator, who has assigned 

 to every bird the habits as well as the form, which it was His good pleasure to 

 imagine and to attach to it. The watchful naturalist may hear, if not see, several 

 migrations of those which frequent our island, both to and fro. as spring advances, 

 and as autumn declines : but as they take place chiefly at night or at early dawn, 

 and in the higher regions of the atmosphere, they are much oftener audible than 

 visible to us on the surface of the earth. — Tunicr's Sacred History. 



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