ANT) THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
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fall, at any time, victims to the voracity of 
the common enemy. Search was quickly 
made to discover if any of the family were 
spared. None were more earnest in the 
search than the Towhees, and they were the 
first to discover Bob and his young ones. 
Calling all the other birds to the scene, they 
learned from Bob all the particulars of the 
disaster. Poor Bob was faint from the loss of 
blood, and his chicks half famished for want » 
of food ; and, as the least movement of his 
caused the most intense pain, there seemed a 
good prospect of the whole family’s starving, 
when Towhee, as soon as the narration of the 
murder was finished, at once exclaimed, — 
Well, friends, it will .never do for us to 
permit our neighbor here and his children to 
starve ; and we cannot, in a better way, show 
our sympathy for Bobolink’s affliction than by 
feeding and caring for him and his family 
•until they are able to provide for themselves. 
Let us, then, at once provide them with proper 
food ; and, if our own lives are spared, we 
will have our neighbor Bob as well as ever in 
a fortnight.’^ 
