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Title: Gray lady and the birds; stories of the bird year for home and school
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, Mrs., 1859-
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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es. For, when we come to look closely at the matter, there is really no fair hunting, for the killing inventions of man —the magazine guns, etc., — are on the increase, while thepower of poor game-birds to protect themselves lessens bothon land and water. Think of it, in some states there are nolaws to protect this bird, even in summer, and, as WoodDucks are fond of their nesting-places, and are veryunsuspicious birds, it often happens that an entire familyis killed the moment the young are large enough to furnishthe pitiful thing, in this case, that is called sport. As it happens, the woods on this side of the river fromabove the pond to the sawmill belong to the Generalsfarm, and. Tommy and Dave, the water right on the otherside belongs to your fathers. Will you not ask them if they will help me to protecttheir birds, if I can get half a dozen pairs from one of theWise Men who is trying to reestablish them in their oldhaunts ? The Grouse and Quail are growing friendly again under
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b- w FOUR NOTABLES 215 protection, and I am in hopes that we may have a drum-mer, as well as a fifer and his family, in the orchard andnear-by woods next spring. There are many hollow willows near the upper pondlike the ones in which the Wood Ducks used to nest.If these are left, the ducks will soon become attached tothem, and, if they escape peril elsewhere, for this Ducksgreatest danger is in the vicinity of home, then we shallall have a chance, possibl), some day to see a sight thatever the Wise Men argue about, — the parent Duck bring-ing her young from the tree hole to take their first swim ! The boys promised to ask the question, and Tommy re-ported at the schoolhouse, the next Friday, that grandpathinks it would be just bully to have Wood Ducks again,and hell sit round the pond, with a shot-gun, all hesable, to keep folks away. He says hes seen the old onesyank the young, one by one, right out of the nest by thewing, and set em on the ground, and when they were alldown, lead

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