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TARPON SprinGs, Fla.—Down here in Florida 
we have lots of outdoor pets, and although there 
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ter. We have three little fellows in particular, 
who often come to the house for shelter and pro- 
tection, they are about the size of a wren and of 
dusky brown color. 
The first we noticed them was one day when it 
was blowing furiously, and there was a driving 
rain. They came under the veranda, taking 
refuge under an old rubber blanket, which hung 
over a chair. There they remained all night, and 
in the morning, after a hearty breakfast of 
crumbs, they merrily flew away. 
The next cold rain they came again, and failing 
to find any shelter on the veranda, they came to 
the window. This being opened they entered 
without any hesitation and remained all night as 
before. They have now become so tame, they will 
come at our call, and will hop about within three 
feet of us to get the crumbs we throw them. 
Not long since, while eating breakfast, a flut- 
tering was heard, and in at the open door came 
one of our little friends, closely followed by a 
small hawk. The hawk finding his prey was be- 
yond his reach for the present, retreated in good 
order to a tree nearby, where he sat with great 
gravity until a charge of shot knocked him over. 
I set him up and he now sits perched on my ink- 
stand watching me write. 
_We have two more pets which were very cun- 
ning for a while, but they are becoming entirely 
too familiar. On one side of the house and quite 
near it stands a large live oak. Last fall, when 
the acorns were full-grown, we noticed two crows 
coming every day for acorns. When they found 
they were not molested they became perfectly 
fearless, and would pick and shell the acorns 
while we sat on the veranda watching them, occa- 
sionally throwing them bits of bread, meat, etc., 
until now they will come on the veranda, stalk 
about with great dignity, come into the house, 
and if no strangers are here, will go on the table, 
helping themselves to whatever they can get. A 
crow will steal anything he can carry, whether it 
be food or not. As I said before, they are be- 
coming too familiar. I don’t like to kill them, for 
I have coaxed them to be friends, but something 
must be done, as they will turn us out of house 
and home, 
We have mockingbirds here which will hardly 
get out of our way they are so tame. Two black 
squirrels live in a tree near the house, and are 
so fearless that they are perfectly at ease within 
ten feet of us, and will sit and munch a nut with 
all the coolness imaginable.. TARPON. 

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