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Show Tho Friendly Sparrow. A lady had a canary who was a great favorite, but the loudness of his note obliged her often to put him outside the window among some trees which were trained up in front of her house. One morning while the cage was thus placed a sparrow was observed to fly round and round it, to stand on the top and to twitter to the bird within as if desirous of forming a friendship. After a few-moments few-moments he flew away, but returned in a short time bearing a worm in his bill, which he dropped into the cage. Day after day the sparrow continued his friendly acts, and at length the two birda became so intimate that the canary Terv often received the food thus brought into his own bill from that of the spar-row. spar-row. Some of the neighbors, desirous to see how far the sparrow's generosity would go, hung out their canaries also, when he likewise brought them worms, but his first and longest visit was always paid to his earliest acquaintance.-New York Mail and Express. |