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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

get an amazing rental in the spectacle of happy lives, not in money but in cheeps and chirrups, glimpses of fluttering wings through the sunny air, and a knowledge that in many a cozy nest are little 144 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS beings which, were it not for your charity, might be devoured by ferocious cats or frozen stiff or dead with hunger by the road-side. Martins will live, like human beings, in skyscrapers or apartment-houses in minia­ture. Jenny Wren likes seclusion, away from prying neighbors; a single gourd or tomato-can may do, and she has been known to bring up her little ones in a sprinkling-can or a mail-box. The log cabin made from a hollow limb is preferred by the Flicker and Nuthatch families. Robins and Phoebes go in for open sleeping-porches; and Bluebirds like roof-gardens, whence they can easily fly out and in. "Turn the openings of the bird-houses away from the prevailing north winds," says an authority, "and don't forget to sheathe the posts or poles that support them with tin FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 145 or galvanized iron to prevent cats from climbing up."

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