. My pets; real happenings in my aviary . d, and then they lived. The bringing up of young birds is intensely inter-esting. I found that one reason why early summeris the favorite time for nest-making is because onehas the short nights then. Parents can feed theiryoung quite late in the evening and be up by earlydaylight to fill the little crops again. Robins arebirds that like to sit up late, and are always the lastto go to bed in the aviary. 39 My Pets I solved the difficulty of rising at daylight to feedany young birds I was bringing up by giving thema stuffing at eleven oclock at night. Th
. My pets; real happenings in my aviary . d, and then they lived. The bringing up of young birds is intensely inter-esting. I found that one reason why early summeris the favorite time for nest-making is because onehas the short nights then. Parents can feed theiryoung quite late in the evening and be up by earlydaylight to fill the little crops again. Robins arebirds that like to sit up late, and are always the lastto go to bed in the aviary. 39 My Pets I solved the difficulty of rising at daylight to feedany young birds I was bringing up by giving thema stuffing at eleven oclock at night. Then I did nothave to rise till nearly eight. This, of course, was for healthy birds. If I hada sick guineapig, rabbit, or bird, I never hesitated toget up many times during the night, for I have atheory that men and women who cannot or will notundertake the moral responsibility of bringing upchildren, should at least assist in the rearing ofsome created thing, if it is only a bird. Otherwisethey become egotistical and absorbed in self. 40. CHAPTER IV A NAUGHTY MOCKINGBIRD AMONG the young robins I had given me wasone that was found sitting helplessly undersome trees. I think I will try my solitary Bob with this one,I said, and I took it to the aviary and put it on theground. The baby robin that had been reserved and sulkywith me, wildly flapped his tiny wings when he sawBob, and ran after him screaming for food. Bob stopped short, wheeled round, searching forworms, and diligently stuffed the little fellow, whofollowed him as closely as his shadow. 41 My Pets I was delighted with the success of my experi-ment, but received a shock a Httle later on going intothe basement to find the wet, bedraggled body ofmy poor baby robin in the pigeons big must have fluttered in while following Bob,his foster parent, about, and the puzzled Bob didnot know how to get him out. As I picked up the body and held him in my hand,a workman who was busy about some repairs in thebasement, said
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