. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . A Street Troubadour: Beingf the Adventures of a Cock Sparrow. UCH a chirruping, sucha twittering, and such asquirming, fluttering mass!Half a dozen English Spar-rows roUing over and chat-tering around one anotherin the Fifth Avenue gut-ter, and in the middle of the mob, when itscattered somewhat, could be seen the causeof it all—a little Hen Sparrow, vigorously, in-dignantly defending herself against her crowdof noisy suitors. They seemed to be ma
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . A Street Troubadour: Beingf the Adventures of a Cock Sparrow. UCH a chirruping, sucha twittering, and such asquirming, fluttering mass!Half a dozen English Spar-rows roUing over and chat-tering around one anotherin the Fifth Avenue gut-ter, and in the middle of the mob, when itscattered somewhat, could be seen the causeof it all—a little Hen Sparrow, vigorously, in-dignantly defending herself against her crowdof noisy suitors. They seemed to be makinglove to her, but their methods were so roughthey might have been a lynching party. Theyplucked, worried, and harried the indignantlittle lady in a manner utterly disgraceful, ex-109 A Street Tfoubadouf cept that it was noticeable they did her noserious harm. She, however, laid about herwith a will. Under no compulsion to spare hertormentors, apparently she would have slaugh-tered them all if she could. It seemed clear that they were making love toher, but it seemed equally clear that she wantednone of them, and having partly convinced themof this at the point of her beak, she took ad-vantage of a
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