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Show iiirnEi: tha c.vt-. Will THK I1VRN OWL 11VB A STKO CLAIM OV OIK I-BOTWrTION. The 1-arn owl, when she has xoung, brings to her nest a mouse about every twelve minutes, aud. as she is actively empiojed loth at cxeninguudat iUwu, ami as male and female hunt, fily mini a da is the- lowest comKitatiou we can make. How soft is the plur&agc of liie owl and how noiseless her flight Witch her as she floats px-t the ivy tod, down by the neks, and silently ovtrllieold wood; then away over the meadows, through the oi en door, and out of th- looji-hole of Him barn, round the Ikiieued tower and aku,r the course of the brook. Presently she returns to her four iKiwny xotiiig w itii a mouse in one elaw and a vole in theother, soon to be lipjH'd up, torn aud eaten by th- greedy, snap ping inn. The young and eggs are found in the ranie nest. If jou Would seethe middsy siesta of these birds climb up into some havmow. There m an angle of the lieaiii you will see their owl-hips snoring and blinking wide thsir great, round eyes; their duet is thcnniuiimrth-ly, thcnniuiimrth-ly, rldlculoufi. grave noise conceivable, conceiv-able, like nothing e-i-e you ever heard. Here the will stav all day, digesting the mice with Wliicli the have gorged themselves until t.vi-light, t.vi-light, when they again is-ue foith upon their madcap revtl?. Tlib clever mou er. then, has a strong claim to our protection; so lot not Idle sui-crstiiion further its destruction. de-struction. - VacmWan' MttyatiHt. |