The Carolina Wren 
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bird will easily admit those grasping monop- 
olists; but Jenny Wren is safe, if she did but 
know it, in her house with its tiny front door 
It is amusing to see a sparrow try to work his 
shoulders through the small hole of an empty 
wren house, pushing and kicking madly, but 
all in vain. 
What rent do the wrens pay for their little 
houses? No man is clever enough to estimate 
the vast numbers of insects on your place that 
they destroy. They eat nothing else, which is 
the chief reason why they are so lively and 
excitable. Unable to soar after flying insects 
because of their short, round wings, they keep, 
as a rule, rather close to the ground which their 
finely barred brown feathers so closely match. 
Whether hunting for grubs in the wood-pile, 
scrambling over the brush heap after spiders, 
searching among the trees to provide a dinner 
for their large families, or creeping, like little 
feathered mice, in queer nooks and crannies 
among the outbuildings on the farm, they are 
always busy in your interest which is also theirs. 
It certainly pays, in every sense, to encourage 
wrens. 
THE CAROLINA WREN 
The house wrens have a tiny cousin, a mite of 
a bird, called the winter wren, that is so shy 
