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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. MAY 14. 1913.
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Showing the Dangers That Await the Unsus
pecting at Our Great Railroad Stations
Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
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Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
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W HEEZY was a sparrow', a very
big and strong and more than
ordinary cunning specimen of
that cunning tribe, and he w r as rather
proud of himself, from his light waist
coat and high clack cravat to the beau
tiful browns of his back and the big-
neflx of his heavy thick beak, but he
was not proud of the wheeze which had
given him his "nick” name. It was
a distinct disadvantage in the wild. It
drew the attention of his enemies too
much to him; made him too conspicu
ous.
He discovered that someone was feed
ing the tits and robins and wrens out
side the backdoor. He promptly left off
chirping he could not leave off wheez
ing—and started. And the more he
stared the more surprise took hold of
him.
A fieldfare -one of those big, very
pretty thrushes that have an .odd,
laughing cry, and because they oi\ly
come to see us in the winter are a^-, f
sociated in our minds with frost and
snow—driven to desperation by hun
ger, flew down to a big piece of bread
hat had fallen near a laurel bush.
That was the surprise. Andy of the
puffed-out bird, assembled there in that
I white and bitter scene, could have told
I him what would happen if he settled
' near that bush when the birds were ,
being fed. *
Next instant that fieldfare was dead
—slain by the paw and jaw of the
’■ginger" cat, who always hid in that
laurel when the birds were being fed,
and was none the richer, as a rule,
once the birds kept carefully out of
is reach.
More Than a Meal.
Then did Wheezy move. He dropped
instantly like a stone with almost com
pletely closed wings, in that extraor
dinary way which sparrows have, and
f to share with no other birds, and
landed upon the bread, to snatch up
i which, under the dreaded "ginger’s"
j very whiskers, and remove at top speed
i >r t£e orchard. The piece of bread
was a big one, a beautiful lump of
| •’•umb, a little larger than a walnut.
It was a meal for half a day or more.
Then he sat on a low bough, just
above a trap, and set up that peculiar
low and wicked chirping which you
may hear when a sparrow curses you,
! or the next-door neighbor’s cat.
The swearing of the sparrow is a
very monstrous and annoying sound. It
annoyed the cock-robin who owned that
4 particular corner of the garden, and
with the robin’s usual dashing intoler*
| ance, he flow straight at Wheezy,
nearly knocking that bird off his perch,
and sending him to the top of another'
j tree near by. After which, the robin
perched on the bough so bravely won,
; and sang his song of victory.
But in the middle of it he stopped
[short. His full, clear eye had fallqn 1
upon the raisins within the trap, aril
■ he liked raisins, and really knew noth
ing at all about traps, for robins are &
I trusting birds. Next moment, he flew
clown and hopped inside, and—well, the
top brick came down, and the next time
poor robin issued from the trap was
when the gardener came roufid ten min- (
utes later to lock up his sheds for thte ■*
, night, and then the robin was dead.
Wheezy sat on in his tree top and
chirped.
The gardener, however, swore. Also
j scratched his head, and in his tem-
I per scattered the bricks of the trap. His
master and mlstres, you see. loved rob-
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j ings and hated sparrowa, and things
| might go badly with him if he were
j caught slaying robins. So he went away
to hide his victim somewhere—in a
| r &t’s hole, I think—and when he came
back a fat litle cock-sparrow coolly,
flew up from among the remnants of the
trap and departed wheezing.
There were no raisins left, and it was
clear that poor cock-robin had had no
time to eat them before he died.
A Rat Climbing.
That night Wheezy roosted in the
thick ivy which clung to the southwest
side of the house. He did so because
the wind was northeast;, had it been west
he would have roosted on the east side.
Gradually the house grew quiet as the
hours slipped on, and one by one the
lights went out. It was still snowing
slightly, and was very still.
Nor was it dark. True, there was no
moon, but the snow made up for the
moon, so you could distinctly se, from
time to time, the shadow form of a
rat, hopping across the open from buch
to bush. Suddenly a rustling noise
sounded at the base of the ivy
Gradually it began to move upward.
Inch by inch it rose, till soon it was
five feet from the ground, and still go
ing higher*. It was a rat climbing. Rats
do climb well, and ivv is, of course
wt? 08,1 ®’ u This on ° was Himbinl.
the grounrt eZy ' avlr>S heard him from
,n? l ?Y ly . he d J? w hfearer and nearer,
oll/i a of * su dden, there was a spring
and a rush, a wild rustles of leaves and
a scream from Wheezy
t . W |j, e ^ zy ’ however, had heard the rus-
IhVrot ! fraction of a second before
the rat sprang, and, with his unique
quickness, instantly acted The ra*
sprang, he struck with his powerful
little beak and with all his might af
the murderer’s gleaming eyes and
promptly fell from his perch He
caped. therefore, with no more than
wV^Vo'me" ^ feaU ’ erS - But e w‘o h r^
Wheezy fetched up ! n mid-air and
dfd W so U ‘ r t?" nd to the roof ’ arid M Si
did so. a brown form swooped at him.
and dived L°°L d e° Wl ' Whp e*y dodged,
and dived back for the ivv, only 1o he
met by another owl. He turned and
eV(li enIy r. W e as ,. haif Winded by a red
glare rt fascinated him. The owls
rale ’ i?°se con \ e ,h ere. lor would the
^■ei 'in U .nt v t0 hlm that ,f he could
get In there he would be safe Fu-
"Thud thnd ^ at d" aag,nRt thp window.
fl uttering "a t'tlie 1 gl^'a^
wboFe Pe ho r use. that he ha<1 awakened lke '
“It’S All Right.”
T h .!r e came a scream from the rooi
within a man shouted hoarsely; dooi
ri a nnds d i,f ttlP Y WaR fi 'tn|? Up! HI
clouds of smoke poured from it; peop!
= tKv? red i.i fr< L ni , nowt tere. and rushe
about with buckets; there was almoi
continuously the hissing sound whir
water makes upon fire: once a
v\ boozy lay half stunned upon the son
on the window still, he saw the re
gleam of flames; then the choking smoh
grew less and less; some one went cai
tering away on a horse, and more peop!
came rushing up- out of the night, an
Wheezy heard a man call uot-
"It’s all right. We’ve got it und<
control. A bird woke us up flutteHn
at the window, or we’d have been burr
ed to death. Yes. it’s all right; only
! few chairs and some curtains."
Then W heezv knew no more
When he awoke he was in a b!j
I warm cage, in a big, warm room, wit
I heaps and beans of delicacies io es
and plenty to drink. They had foun
him lying, all limp and nearly frozei
I on the windowsill next morning.