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Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets; Being a Selection, with Revision, from the Teachers' Leaflets, Home Nature-Study Lessons, Junior Naturalist Monthlies, and Other Publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-190

Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets; Being a Selection, with Revision, from the Teachers' Leaflets, Home Nature-Study Lessons, Junior Naturalist Monthlies, and Other Publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-190


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...risk of breaking his neck in order to place this suet just opposite my window. The whole chickadee family and four nuthatches, and Sir Downy and Madam Hairy had been reveling in the feast all the morning when suddenly Fig. 1$8. The nuthauh, one of one after another three crows appeared the winter birds. upon the scene. My heart sank as I saw them eying the suet with interest. Nearer and nearer they hopped from branch to branch. I pounded on the widow and called out, " Go away " in both the crow and the English language, all in vain. One crow braver or hungrier than the others with one defiant eye on me flapped confidently down and sought to carry the suet off in his beak; to his surprise it was tied on. That seemed suspicions and when we raised the window and leaning far out explained matters he lifted slowly with a jeering "caw" that said plainly "I'll call sometime when you are not at home " and with that he and his companions disappeared up the gorge. The invited guests at the suet table were less disturbed than was I, and I suppose it is rather inconsistent to feed the chickadees and let the ravens go hungry. But this suet will last the little birds a month while it would hardly furnish a breakfast for three crows; and in philanthropic enterprises one is obliged to draw the line somewhere even at the cost of consistency. I will return to my nuthatch, who, by the way, has just hammered off a piece of suet and thrust it into a crevice of the bark on the tree bole. Why does he do that: is it for convenience in eating or is it an attempt to store up some of his dinner for future need? Anyway it is bad manners, like carrying off fruit from table d' hote. But he is polite enough in another respect; every time after eating the sue...



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781231049389
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231049383
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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