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Identifier: howtohavebirdnei00patt (find matches)
Title: How to have bird neighbors
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Patteson, S. Louise (Susanna Louise), 1853-1922
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hadlearned in manual training school how to use simpletools, so I bought also a saw, plane, shaving knife,brace and set of bits, and a small vise. Then outof an old sewing machine stand I made a workbench, and a light corner of the basement becamemy shop. I made those yeast foam boxes intowren houses, and out of the cocoa box I made a blue-bird house. The boys mother had told me thathis manual training teacher was a lady, and thatshe was just as good as a man, so I felt quiteproud of my new fancy work. The house for bluebirds and one for wrens were put 20 HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS up in trees. The other wren house was mountedon a post above the grape arbor. But it did notstay there long, for I soon found that a grape arboris no place for a bird house. Can you guess whynot.? It was while waiting for the wrens and the blue-birds to come that I had such delightful times withthe woodpeckers, the nuthatches and the chickadees. -w>...-«^. T^ fB^^tm^--9-^^ !^ BbA. J THE SELFISH NUTHATCH
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CATS BELONG ON THEIR OWN PREMISESIII REAL TROUBLES IN BIRDLAND I SAID that birds were lovely neighbors. So aresome other animals. At my new home I soon be-came acquainted with a wild rabbit. Two dogsroamed around in the vacant lots and in the ravinea great deal. Often when I heard them barking,the next thing I saw would be Bunny, running asfast as he could toward our place, with the dogs 21 %% HOW TO HAVE BIRD NEIGHBORS after him. Bunny could glide through under thegarden fence, and that was lucky for him. Thedogs were too big and couldnt. I was glad when Bunny came to our place for safety.He liked slices of apple so well that he would comenearer and nearer to get them, until finally he ateout of my hand. One hot day while Bunny was in our yard, he sawthe birds basin, and went there to drink. He had

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