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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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e and an-ger, he was greeted with a cry of painand alarm. The mistress who shouldhave praised rated him well, the handthat should have stroked his smooth coatwrenched his prize from him. In hisanger he tried to scratch her in return,but she had been too quick for him, andRobin was saved. Tenderly he was laidin a bed of cotton and placed on an upperveranda, once more in the sweet, balmyair. Cautiously he lifted his head, andas no shining green eyes or sharp pawwere to be seen, ventured to hop to theedge of the basket in which his kind pre-server had placed him. One more lookaround and he stretched out his wingsand soared away. Oh, my dear Rob! I heard your cry.Where have you been? Do tell me allabout it! exclaimed Mrs. Robin on Mr.Robins return, and he, in a most graphicmanner, granted her request; but, as wealready know all about it, we wont stayto listen. As to Tertius, he has decided that towin his way to fame he must confinehimself in the future to a war on mice.M. Leila Dawson. 80

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THE DOMESTIC CAT. In the old, old writings of the sacred Sanskrit language, that ancient language of the Hindoos, nearly two thousand years ago reference was made to the Domestic Cat. And so we know that Cats existed long ago and are a very ancient animal. But by means of pictures we are able trace their origin to still earlier times, for the Egyptian monuments abound in pictured Cats, and, stranger yet, in Egypt are found mummies of both the domestic and common jungle Cat. How very important it must have been considered! Think of burying the body of every forlorn, luckless Cat, and then realize the pains taken, not only to give it a burial, but to preserve it for ages to come; and this the Egyptians did, for doubtless it was to them the most sacred of all sacred animals. Herodotus says that when one of their houses was on fire they first thought of saving the Cat, and afterward considered the matter of putting out the fire; also when a Cat died they cut off their own hair as a sign of mourning. When a per

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