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Title: What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes:
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
Subjects: Games Amusements
Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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h a few bread crumbs on one sideof the house, to keep the sparrows occupied, whilst you feed •the other birds elsewhere. Sparrows, however, have a wayof being on every side of the house at once. Still, if you feedyour birds daily, and as nearly at the same time as possible(they like it as soon as may be after your own breakfast), youwill find them on the lookout for you, and they will manageto get a good share, if they all start fair, in spite of the spar-rows. In a hard frost they are thankful for a second meal,but it should not be later than two oclock, because birds goto bed very early in cold weather, and the food would befrozen too hard for them to be able to eat it next morning. One word more. There is great danger of birds being 366 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? caught by a cat while they are busy with their food, especiallyif near the bushes. The only possible protection against thiswhich you can take is to see that your own cat is indoors andis therefore not the offender. READING I
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Reading (Facing pafjo SOS) READING ALL persons who care very much for reading will findtheir way naturally to the books most likely to pleasethem; left alone in a library they are never disap-pointed. For them no advice is necessary. Kor is advice im-portant to those who have opportunities to compare notes onreading with friends who have similar tastes. For instance,two boys may fall to talking of books. Have you readBmid Balfour f one will say. No; whos it by? Stevenson. What else did he write ? Well, he wroteTreasure Island^ I ve read that. If David Balfour isanything like that, I must get it. He gets it; and thus,either by asking others whose taste he can trust, or by goingsteadily on through each author who satisfies him, he willalways have as much good reading as he needs. But there are still other readers — who have no real in-stinct for books, or no memory for authors names, or fewopportunities of comparing notes — for whom a list of booksthat are worth trying, books which

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