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the table back and covered the window with 
paper and then cut holes ^to look out of. Clint 
Hanger was there. A chickadee came and found 
a piece of suet I had put in a small tree that 
I had my martin house oh in the summer. He ate 
a lot of it. Then his mate came too. The 
sparrows were out in the garden but kept coming 
nearer. I thought one was coming but he went 
down by the woodpile. Finally after 1 had 
read all the news about 30 came. They went down 
by the woodshed and even inside. One came too 
near another and was grabbed by another, in 
conseauence by the head. One looked up and saw 
me and warned the others by a thin tseep , and 
they all flew up in the tree but came down 
right away again. A chickadee gave a note like 
sit-a-pul-et-ser. Sometimes it gives it pul - 
et-ser- then the sparrows saw me again and went 
away.’ Then about 10 came back. One found some¬ 
thing under a stick and put his head down on 
the ground sidewise and worked till he got it 
out. Then they all flew off. 
January 29, 1900 - Monday . 
Today it is snowing quite hard and the wind 
is blowing from the southwest, bhen 1 came home 
from school at noon I went out to the barn and 
on my way back saw the chickadee at the suet in 
the maple. The wind came sweeping in and caught 
his long tail and blew it up till it nearly 
touched his head and blew its wings from his 
body and ruffled up his feathers. I felt sorry 
for him, the wind was so cold and keen. He kept 
silent and ate the suet. He got pieces off by 
picking and wrenching at it. The suet will help 
keep him warm. After dinner I mixed a plateful 
of bread crumbs and cut wheat and t»hrewit out 
on the ground on a bare spot. I am going to keep 
a place clear of snow and feed the birds on it. 
They had cleaned the pigeon grass all up, leaving 
only the dry husks. The English sparrows were 
