DEFENSIVE COMMON-SENSEIn cherry time, the robins come in for much harsh comment. They spoil the cherries by their greedy, wasteful way of taking one bite from each cherry. No one would begrudge the robin a few cherries, but to see the fruit ruined by one bite is hard to take.
Some practical idealist gave out the word this spring, through a letter in the paper, that robins eat cherries because they are thirsty, and if cherry orchards were supplied with plenty of drinking places the robins would leave the fruit alone. So we have supplied more places for birds to drink, and I am glad to say I have found very few cherries with the robin's mark on them. Doubters may arise and say I am a prejudiced witness, but these are the facts.
Now this leads circuitously to something more important, which
