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Show Strange Story Out True. P. U Vnndcgrlft has a now story. It I lllustratlvo ot tho marvelous fecundity fe-cundity of tho Kngllsh aparrow. "I was pending Sunday with tho Dumont Smiths, nt Kinsley," said Van, In recounting hi oxporlonce. "Wo had been up lato tho night before be-fore and I wa n trlllo drowsy. I sat out on tho front orch listening to tho church bolls and gating oft Into tho Illimitable spneo thnt Ilea bctwoen n ahortgrass town nnd tho horlton bey ond "Presently 1 dropped my hat Into n bod ot Virginia creeper and doted oft to sleep. I could not havo slept moro than an hour, for tho children woro passing tho house on tho way from Sunday school when I awoko. I rubbed my eyes and glanced ovor at my hat. In It sat an Kngllsh sparrow spar-row brooding n setting of egg While I slept tho sparow had built n not In my hat, tho mother bird had laid I a full complement of egg nnd had bo- B gun tho work of hatching them." Kansas City Journal. I |