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Show When the man with a small on-hard sees the birds taking his fruit, he calls them thieves and other bad names, and never thinks that the birda are merely collecting their honest wagea. In .the grape growing regions of Germany, the owners of the land in their desire to utilize every possible acre have for many years been cutting down the trees, the shrubbery, the hedges everything that supplied nesting places for bird. But as thia has ben going on the ravages of insect! have increased until now those people, recognizing the result .if their, extreme thrift, have repented and are planting plant-ing bushes and setting out hedge and nesting bcxes are seen everywhere. A regular system has been adopted to coax the birds back and henceforth the birds will be the care of those people and they will be permitted to sing and eat grape to their hearts content. . ( |