mrk". We am tell from the binad nmber how        m       a present,
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e aet Ye       Of the Ya, a     how     s  ve      from  e  preiu 
68w       one of ton you gchikes         titi    the *class 
of 19T8    Vhe~ he first entered ou  tra  onJnar      9 he showed 
so visible .viezw   of g.4',o Lik his classtes his. valor for 
suet ws greater than his discretion* L  ike his-classates he bit w 
finger while being taen out of the trap. Whs bandedand reeased 
he fluttee up to a limb, pocked his now al  m   anklt In mild 
anoane shook his massed feathers, omrsed getly, and& ariod 
awa  to ca.tch up with the     It ZI.s-doulitfu whether he dre any 
phiosohicl ddution   from his .e4riw    (all is nt ate' egg 
that gl~tters,"or the like) for he was oa  ~    in three times that

su wnter, 
By the secoM wixter our recaptues shwed that the class of tea 
yonsters ha shru  to three, and by the third winter to two. By 
the fourth minter &R7    a  the sole surviyoz of bin eean SISR& p5.

of gwdus we"e still laakin, but of his extraordinar capacity for 
living there ws mow historical proof* 
We know little about birds; we a only specuilate on why this bird 
outlived his fellows. Was he more olever in dodging his eneigs 
Hry, for the chickaee is almost too sa        t have u.me. TI 
whimsical follow caled    olation, having eunlarge the dimoeau 
uatil he tripped o   his ow toes, twishi       n the O 
util he was jt too big to be sappe v      by flyatchers as an Iec.