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Show LET TllK 8PAKIIOW I.IVK j The Chicago Ikrald has taken up i cudgels for the English sparrow, pcr-! pcr-! haps the most intrusive and oljnoxioe? i ,'Britisher ever imported to this land of! i freedom. He has inado his home in . pities only, and in a few years spread across the bredth of this country, supplanting sup-planting our sweetest songsters aud ; giving nothing iu return hut his peculiarly, pecu-liarly, gruff, disagreeable, dogishness ; as he walks over all competitors and spoils public buildings. The Herald say: He finishes off the metro litani.-m of the rity as no other bird conift do or would. He is entirely en-tirely congruous, lie. fives you the inipresiou that lie can take care of himself that he couldn't be bunkoed. The difference between him and the birds of the field is exactly that between the men and women who crowd the Greets and those who live in country places cloee lo nature. Let .him live! |