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Identifier: boybirds00tayl (find matches)
Title: The boy and the birds
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Taylor, Emily, 1795-1872. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New-York, General Protestant Episcopal S. S. Union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e ofindignation ? The ascertained fact is, that the foundlingegg, the subject of such wrath, is not turned out of the nest,while the eggs of the parent birds invariably, I believe, are.The presumption then is, that it is a favour rather than anaffront. But when shall we cease to marvel at Providence ! Wehave just seen the cat-bird pertinaciously resisting attemptsto make her hatch the offspring of another bird. How is itthat the cuckoo and the cow-bunting are not turned adrift ?We see their young, every where orphans, yet everywhereprotected. In violation of all common rule and instinct, amother-bird abandons her young to the care of others, andis allowed to be a parent without sharing either in a pa-rents affection or labour; and to meet this extraordinaryexception to the usual course of things, we have another,not so remarkable certainly, because not so rare, of a uni-versal w^illingness to accept the charge, even when it in-volves the destruction of the foster-parents whole family!
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