. The Audubon magazine . so far as filthiness and thievishnessare concerned, even worse than the English have known much sickness, and even death, tohave occurred, in consequence of the use of rainwater, shed from roofs that had been soiled by theseunclean birds. You say that the English attribute their good cropsto the presence of numerous sparrows. Are yousure these English people were not quizzing you:that instead of the crops of the farms, did they notmean that the crops of the sparrows were so heavy? You say God made these sparrows for a purpose ;now, while I will not dispute yo
. The Audubon magazine . so far as filthiness and thievishnessare concerned, even worse than the English have known much sickness, and even death, tohave occurred, in consequence of the use of rainwater, shed from roofs that had been soiled by theseunclean birds. You say that the English attribute their good cropsto the presence of numerous sparrows. Are yousure these English people were not quizzing you:that instead of the crops of the farms, did they notmean that the crops of the sparrows were so heavy? You say God made these sparrows for a purpose ;now, while I will not dispute your proposition, I begto remind you that the same may be said of skunks,wolves, rattlesnakes, scorpions, fleas, mosquitoes,and thousands of other animated respectfully yours, F. E. L. A. Very, 154 Federal Street, Salem, Mass. WE are grati-fied at beingable to present thereaders of the Au-dubon with a por-trait of the watchdog of the Treas-ury. General Spin-ner well deserves aniche in the Audu-. bon temple, for inspite of his decidedattitude toward thatdebatable bird, andbone of contention—the English spar-row—he is a verywarm supporter ofthe Audubon move-ment. A FAMILY ON MY HANDS, AS I stood leaning over the gardenfence one Sabbath evening, admiringa stretch of billowy meadow beyond, myattention was drawn to a startled bird whichfluttered from the grasses a few feet distant,and as it alighted on the fence near by, Irecognized it as the black-throated bunt-ing [Euspiza americana). Suspecting a nest,I made search and discovered one in a thickbunch of clover and timothy, fastened tothe tall millet clover stems, about one footfrom the ground, and containing five beau-tiful eggs. A neat little home it was, scent-ed with the breath of the blossoming clover,and swaying gently with every passingbreeze; it reminded me of the old nurseryrhyme, of Rock-a-by babies all in the treetop, etc.; indeed I used to be under consid-erable apprehension lest the cradl
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