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BIRD-LIFE. 
After narrating such facts as these, it is unnecessary 
to dwell further on the subject of reason in birds. My 
readers will now, one and all, be better able to appreciate 
the words spoken by the chamois hunter in Schiller's 
‘ William Tell: 
“ You’re joking now. A beast devoid of reason, 
That’s easy said. But beasts have reason, too; 
And that we know.” 
