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Show Strange Story But True. - F. L. Vandosrlft has a now story. It is lllustratlvo of tho marvelous fo- cundlty of tho Kngllsh sparrow. H "I was pending Sunday with the Dumont Smiths, nt Klnsloy," said Van, ln recounting his - experience H "Wo had been up lato tho night bo- foro and I was a trlflo drowsy. I sat I out on tho front porch listening to tho church bolls and gazing off Into tho jfl llllmltablo spaco that lies botween jfl a shortgrass town and tho horizon H beyond. jH "Presently I dropped my hat into 9J a bed of Virginia creeper and dozed H off to slcop. I could not havo slopt jflj moro than an hour, for tho chlldron HJ woro passing tho house on tho way flj from Sunday school whon I awoke. flj I rubbed my eyes and glanced over 9J at my bat In It1 sat an English spar- flj row brooding a setting of eggs. While H I slopt tho sparows had built a nest nfl ln my hat, tho mothor bird had laid flj a full complement of eggs and had be- flj 'gun tho work' of hatching them." H Kansas City Journal. H |