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CHILDREN’S COLUMN, 
A Windfall. 
HIGH wind, one day last July, blew down a Thrush’s 
nest from a fine old elm tree. Three young birds 
were found on the lawn ; two were killed by the fall, 
but the one in the picture looked quite unhurt, so it 
was brought into the house and fed. Next morning it was put 
in a cage and hung at an open window. The parent birds soon 
heard the lonely prisoner's cry and came to feed it ; they looked 
