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except that the birds were not quite so ravenous after the ﬁrst meal, and by afternoon I was safe in discarding caution and could throw the.window wide open with as much noise as possible, I took pains to let them see into the large tin box swarming with worms as I held it in my hand and picked them out and tossed them down to the ground. We were pretty good friends by the close of the ﬁrst day.

I\/Iy ideas are apt to arrive by freight about the morning after, or. I am sure. I might have been able to record that wild Bluebirds could be tamed to feed on the

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window-sill in three hours. time. However that may be, next morning early they were hoth there as you see them in the pic- ture' and the study win- dowvsill remained their dining-table until the ﬁrst brood left the nest on A new DAYS run l\Ia_\' twenty-eighth

A few days later when I came home from the laboratory Mrs, Hodge greeted me with: " You can‘t guess what happened this alternoon—Bluet perished on my finger and fed from the hand." After this it hecame the pastime of the familv to have Bluet feeding on the handy and often she would seem to linger to warm her toes. 'l‘wiuklewing never grew quite