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Show Wise Owl. "In a hollow tree, during my vacation, vaca-tion, I found two young owls," said a 6tudenL "I also found in the same nest two eggs. Puzzled that the mother mo-ther owl should have abandoned her setting ere Us completion, I laid the matter before my farmer host "The farmer told me that country people know well that the owl, after hatching half her brood, loaves tho other eggs to be hatched by the newborn new-born birds. These young aro warmblooded, warm-blooded, they are helpless to leavo tho nest, and in nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the mother mo-ther would have done. "I'd consider this a superstition If I hadn't seen a proof of It. I wonder If nature books discuss the matter at all." |