. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. Sflverspot :â i worried by kingbirds. Not that these did bitb much harm, but they were such noisy pests that he avoided their company as quickly as possible, just as a grown man avoids a conflict with a noisy and impudent small boy. He bad some cruel tricks, too. He had a way Bf gc'ng the rounci of the small birds' nests tach morning to eat the new laid eggs, as jegularly as a doctor visiting his patients. But we must not judge him for that, as it is just what we ourselves do to the hens in the bam yard. , His
. Wild animals I have known and 200 drawings [microform]. Animal behavior; Animaux. Sflverspot :â i worried by kingbirds. Not that these did bitb much harm, but they were such noisy pests that he avoided their company as quickly as possible, just as a grown man avoids a conflict with a noisy and impudent small boy. He bad some cruel tricks, too. He had a way Bf gc'ng the rounci of the small birds' nests tach morning to eat the new laid eggs, as jegularly as a doctor visiting his patients. But we must not judge him for that, as it is just what we ourselves do to the hens in the bam yard. , His quickness of wit was often shown. One day I saw him flying down the ravine with a large piece of bread in hit; bill. The stream below him was at this time being bricked over IS a sewer. There was one part of two hundred fards quite finished, and, as he flew over the Dpen water just above this, the bread fell from his bill, and was swept by the current out of light into the tunnel He flew down and peered vainly into the dark cavern, then, act- ing upon a happy thought, he flew to the down- stream end of the tunnel, and awaiting the re- appearance of the floating bread, as it was swept 75. â ',â¢. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York : Grosset & Dunlap
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