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Show BIRD LOST IN THE AIR. I Boys arc frequently lest in the woods, and it Is a singular fact that birds are sometimes lo3t In the air. This might stem strange to almost anyone; but the average man is a superficial observer of little things. In the far North, and particularly Klong the ocean coasts, birds are frequently1 fre-quently1 storm-driven and lose their bearlnrs, eo that many of them are lost at sea. They keep floating in the air aimlessly, striving to live, until exhaustion ex-haustion compels them to drop into the angry waves which engulf them. There Is a well-authenticited case on record of an ocean liner bringing Into New York, on a winter's dey a large white owl which had dropred to one of the forward spars in an exhausted condition con-dition more than 800 miles pit the coast of Newfoundland. It was nearly dead rrom cold and hunger, and almost too weak to eat anything. It had become much tmacia'.ed, and trembled in Its distress when It tried to swallow the first morsel of meat which was p'need within Us beak. The captain and sailors sail-ors were all Interested In It, and under heir nourishing care 1. slowly recovered, recov-ered, and became entirely well, and health v and strong. .It willingly remained re-mained with the ship afterward. It waj evidently a land bird which had beeii blown off from the coast of Newfoundland by strong- west winds, had become lost, merely drifts before the sales, kept out of the water, almost starved to death, and mad its last intelligent in-telligent effort td reach the ship, and there fell in exhaustion and crl lapse. Old sailors narrate many other Instances In-stances of finding birds that have been lost in the air. |