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95 per cent, of the whole were unripe and
worthless ; if I waited until the majority ripened, the
sparrows had carried away all the early fruit.
Besides this, the bullfinches and other thick-billed
epicures invaded the trees during the early spring,
and picked out the delicate heart of the flower
bud just as it was opening; strewing the ground
under the tree with a snow-like layer of the outer
petals.
The currant bushes were stripped as soon as the
seeds were developed within the young green
currants.
During our stay at Sande, which is situated in a
low level, south aspect, richty vegetated district, I
looked out carefully for sparrows, but saw none,
nor any other of their strong-billed cousins; and
to this I attribute the abundance of every kind of
fruit which the climate is capable of ripening.
Certain cockney concoctors of newspaper
paragraphs have done the considerably indignant in
denouncing farmers’ clubs and other efforts for the
extermination of sparrows and similar agricultural
vermin, which in Norway are beneficently starved
to death by the long winter.
These natives of Fleet Street and the Strand,
W.C., imagine that sparrows eat caterpillars.
They might as well suppose that tigers dine
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