
Mk reins ee 
traps, and give oreat trouble to thofe who attempt 
to catch them, and even then almott every effort 
7 is in vain, for they breed three times a year, and — 
if you deftroy their neft, in two days they will 
make another; if you break their eggs, in ten 
days, they will lay again; if you fhoot at them 
When they are upon the roof of the houfe, they 
only conceal themielves the better im your 
barns. 
 Thofe who have bars Sparrows i in cages, fay 
that a pair will confume near twenty pounds 
4 weight of corn, ina year; we may judge from 
hence how deftructive they muft be. ‘It is true 
they feed their. young very much on infects, and 
that they themfelves deftroy many infects, yet 


| gfain feems to be their favourite food. Onac- 
Count of the mifchief they do, a price is fome- 
times: fet upon their lives, in many villages; im 
_ fome parts of Germany, every year, each peafant 

AS obliged to produce the heads of a certain nui 
am Of Sparrows. . ~ sal 
Yet however mifchievous they may feem, ‘ 
| Bi sidesce has made no animal whatever but to 
Produce fome good, we may be aflured that the 
mew anfwers fome defirable purpofes. 
_ Mr. De Buffon attempted to deftroy them by 
“ig fulphur, mixed with fome rofin and char- 
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