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Show " ' Killing Sparrows. in live minutes from the time that the men started on their way the guns began to bang. All up and down tlie ' valldy (hiring the entire afternoon the repoVfs filled the nir until tho inhab itnuts might have been excused for be1 Hovlhpr that n war skirmish was golngif on hi thb neighborhood. The sparrows spar-rows never had been thicker. In fact, they had been bo thick during the sum-'J, mer months that they threatened toi cat tho farmers out of housohnd homo. One peculiar fact about shobting spar-' tows Ih that thenoisoof thcgUnascema I'J frighten tlioin only temporarily. TVy japidlj' become accustomed to the report, as they do to everything i elite. They are the most complacent " lit tloupstnrts that ever immigrated Into the country. On Fourth of July the wnmo characteristic 5s noticeable.' In early morning, whqn the first few fire crackers or miniature torpedoes are discharged, dis-charged, tho sparrows will fly away to the topmost branches of the trees or to tho oaves of jibe barns and houses, 'vhcre they build ncsta, but before nightfall they 'arc back again on the Htrects as chipper as ever, and only mind a firecracker long enough to fly a few feet uwny and smuttcr like thu mischief when it bursts. (So It hi vhen hunting. ATho, first discharge of weapons "early In.tlje morning sent tho sparrows away to their safest re treats, but by noon, between hunger and the fact that they no longer dreaded the noise, they were out on the roads, in the fields, about barnyardR and stealing the grain away from the chickens, as though they never had heard a shotgun. |