Saturday, June 22, 1929 



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Interesting humming bird story sent 

 by Mrs. Fred Crowell of Center Sand- 

 wich, N. H., to tlie Meredith News: 

 LaHt Saturday, my neiKhbor, Sirs. 

 Ai rillsbiii-y, onme in asking: me if I 

 would lilio to see a InmimlnK bird she 

 had. It was in a tin box. I aslted 

 her how slip rauprht it. Hbo said it 

 was hurt and eonldn't flv. She 

 thought it must be its winff. 



r took the tiny bird in mv hand 

 :ind We tried to locate its trouble 

 As wr touched its wing, it made a 

 liitiful little cry as much as to say, 

 "Please don't hurt me.- At last We 

 found that one v.'ing was different 

 from the ether. The tiny feathers 

 looked as if they were glued down 

 "We got water and tried to loosen 

 the little feathers. 



As we smoothed the feathers down 

 Mrs. Pillsbury said thei-e seemed to 

 be something on the tip of the wing 



I ran my fingers slowly over the 

 wing again and as my fingers came 

 to the tip, a tiny spider web came 



Mrs. Pillsbury exclaimetl. "Why, It 

 is a spider's web wound around the 

 wing." She took a flne needle and 

 picked the web away. Then we put 

 the Uttle feathers smooth again. But 

 the bird didn't seem to know we had 

 removed the web, so we put it in a 

 box thinking it might be all right 

 after a time. Then the Idea came to 

 us that it might be hungry, so Mrs. 

 Pillsbury took it to her home where, 

 it had been working on some flowers. 

 She put Its long slender bill down in 

 a blossom. After a little it drew out 

 its bill, lifted its head and flew away— 

 we surely hope none the worse for 

 the experience it had had. . 



