The Burrowing Owl 
tendant cultivation bear hard upon them, yet they are able to maintain 
themselves in out-of-the-way places, and in the shelter of fence rows. 
Squirrel poison claims occasional victims, especially the bisulphide variety; 
and the Owls will disappear from sections where poison is persistently used. 
Taken in Oregon Photo by Finley b 3 Bohlman 
BROTHERS 
For Younger Readers 
IF YOU WERE A BIRD 1 don’t believe you’d want to live in a 
hole in the ground, would you? It’s warm there, no doubt, but it 
must be stuffy and dark; and oh! supposing it should rain too much 
at once! But this bird likes it. He was brought up that way, and 
he doesn’t know any better. We call him the Billy Owl because, 
because—well, now, I don’t know just why we do call him the Billy 
Owl, but 1 guess it’s because he is so funny. When he hears us chil¬ 
dren coming, no matter how quietly, he scrambles up out of his hole 
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