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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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A BABY WREN ON THE WINDOW SILL
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BLUEBIRDS ARE GREAT HELPERS IN A GARDEN (See page ^ VITHE BOY One day in early April I was in the ravine gettinghepaticas. Before I knew it I was near the boyshouse again. His mother called to me from hergarden. The boy is at home now/ she said; maybe youwould like to see him at work. 44 THE BOY 45 I thanked her, and went with her to the little shop.There beside his work bench stood a boy abouttwelve or thirteen years old. He was painting thewren house a dark green. The bluebird house wasfinished, ready to put up. I told him I had put up my bird houses long ago,and that the bluebirds had been house hunting forsome weeks. He said that there were so manyEnglish sparrows around his place that he fearedthey would nest in his houses if he put them outearly. But he had just learned of a way to keep thesparrows from nesting in bluebird houses. He saidhis manual training teacher had advised him tomount his houses for wrens and bluebirds onlyabout eight feet from the ground, since the Englishs

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