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Excerpt from Katie of Birdland: An Idyl of the Aviary in Golden Gate Park
There are cages so large that the little winged folk inside of them scarcely real, ize that they have not the freedom ofthe universe. Nor do they know that the great stretch of three dimension wire walls, which keep them in, are also for the purpose of keeping out cruel enemies of their own kind who would prey upon them, from the belligerent sparrows, which are not much larger than the canaries themselves, to the big hawks which circle far up into the sky.
There are many of these wire houses, because feathered folk don't know much more about brotherly love than Humans and, if they were all put into a single domicile - no matter how large - they would scold and fight and even kill one another over something to eat, a place in the sun, a choice apartment in some particular tree or, perhaps, jealousy about a lady bird.
Altogether they are very much like people in their habits, emotions and acts. One may learn a great deal in the Aviary.
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