. Bird world; a bird book for children . dwho had the cherry hopped along the limb with amotion which would almost do for a bow, and offeredthe cherry to the second bird. This ones manners,however, were just as good, and he, too, hopped backand returned the cherry to the first bird. The cherry was passed in this way from one to theother nearly half a dozen times, each bird making ahop and a bow, as if to say, I cannot think of eatingit; I would much rather that you took it. We must not expect to find such great politenessas these Cedar Birds showed common among birds;in fact, their food is oft
. Bird world; a bird book for children . dwho had the cherry hopped along the limb with amotion which would almost do for a bow, and offeredthe cherry to the second bird. This ones manners,however, were just as good, and he, too, hopped backand returned the cherry to the first bird. The cherry was passed in this way from one to theother nearly half a dozen times, each bird making ahop and a bow, as if to say, I cannot think of eatingit; I would much rather that you took it. We must not expect to find such great politenessas these Cedar Birds showed common among birds;in fact, their food is often so hard to obtain that wecannot blame a hungry bird who has little ones tofeed for snatching it as quickly as he can. If there are no tables set for the birds, where eachcan find his food at his own place, and no one to setthem an example, we shall hardly expect them to havegood table manners. We can remember the CedarBirds, however, and when next we see the noisySparrows we will beg them to take a lesson from theirpoliter Downy Woodpecker. A FAMILY OF BACKWOODSMEN. TN the great forests of Maine and northern New^ York none of the sounds can be heard which areso familiar to us who Hve in busy towns — no factorywhistles, no bells, no trains of cars with their noisy A FAMILY OF BACKWOODSMEN. 41 engines. The stillness is broken only by the distantring of the wood-choppers axe. If you follow the sound, you may come upon astrong, broad-shouldered man, swinging a bright axeand covering the ground around the foot of a treewith the clean, sweet-smelling chips. A little distanceoff is another wood-chopper, giving such blows thatyou may sometimes hear him half a mile away. .Healso strews chips far and wide. The tool of this second woodman is more like achisel, and he never parts with it, for it is his long,powerful bill. His neck is tremendously strong, sothat by drawing back his head he can strike a blowwhich tears off great sheets of decaying bark, or evenlarge chips of
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