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Show Strange 8tory But True. F. Vandegrlft has a new story. It is lllustrativo ot tho marvelous fecundity fe-cundity ot the English sparrow. "I was pending Sunday with the Dumont Smiths, at Kinsley," said Van, in recounting his oxporlenco. "Wo had been up lato tho night bo-foro bo-foro and I waa a trifle drowsy.t I sat out on tho front porch listening to tho church bells and gazing off Into the Ullmltablo spaco that llos botween a shortgrass town and tho horizon beyond. "Presently I droppod my hat into a bed of Virginia crccpor and dozod off to sleep. I could not havo slept moro than an hour, for tho children woro passing tho houso on tho way from Sunday school when I awoko. I rubbed my eyes and glanced ovor at my bat In It sat an English sparrow spar-row brooding a setting of eggs. While I slept tho sparows had built a nest In my hat, tho mother bird had laid a full complement of eggs and had bo-un bo-un tho work of hatching thorn." Kansas City Journul. |