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by the wayside 
A Feathered Carpenter. 
As I am writing here in my study 
these November days, a downy wood-, 
pecker is excavating a chamber in the 
top of a chestnut post in the vineyaid 
a few yards below me, or rather, lie is 
enlarging a chamber which he or one 
of his fellows excavated last fall; he is 
making it ready for his winter quar¬ 
ters. A few days ago I saw him enlarg¬ 
ing the entrance and making it a more 
complete circle. Now he is in the 
chamber itself working away like a 
carpenter. I hear his muffled hammer¬ 
ing as I approach cautiously on the 
grass. I make no sound and the ham- 
mering continues till I have stood for a 
moment beside the post, then it sud¬ 
denly stops and Downy’s head appears 
at the door. He glances at me suspi¬ 
ciously and then hurries away in much 
excitement. 
How did he know there was some 
one so near? As birds have no sense 
of smell it must have been by some 
other means. I return to my study and 
in about 15 minutes Downy is back at 
work. Again I cautiously and silently 
approach, but he is now more aleit, 
and when I am the width of three 
grape rows from him he rushes out oi 
his den and lets off his sharp metallic 
cry as he hurries off to some trees be¬ 
low the hill.— (John Durroughs, in 
Country Dife in America.) 
A MANUAL OF MORAL 
and HUMANE EDUCATION 
By FLORA HELM KRAUSE 
OF THE 
CHICAGO ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY 
1S5 W. Indiana Street 
Publishers: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. 
A large humane idea dominates the 
book; the author endeavors to remove 
the baleful prejudices which exist be¬ 
tween race and race, class and class, 
and the contempt or indifference felt by 
men toward their furred and feathered 
brothers of the held and the air .—The 
Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 11, 1910. 
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