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Show Itnliln Thnt HnnRfrt Itself. Do birds commit suicide? It would seen? from circumstantial cvldcnco thnt they do. Recently while passing a largo sycamore tree in tho State university grounds, bays a writer In Forest nnd Stream, I happened by some chtinco to look up Into tho tree, nnd thcro I saw n robin about twenty feet from tho ground hanging to-n stvlnc by the neck. Each end of tho string was wrapped nrouml limbs nbout eighteen Inches apart, and tho middle was wound around the robin's neck, so that It was hanging about mldwny between tho two limbs. I at first thought It waa .dead, but while looking nt It I saw Its wings move, when I rushed Into the buildings, got a ladder and soon had It rescued. Its llfo wns nnarly gone, but nfter a little whllo It revived nnd Hew away. A partly built nest In tho tree would indicate that It wns carrying n strlug to put In with Its building material, ma-terial, nnd In some way becamo entangled en-tangled in tho string with tho above result |