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That is basically the job description of the scarecrow, a figure so old that it was already ancient when your greatgreat-great-grandparents were kids. Most look like a person stuffed with straw, dressed in old clothes, and propped on a wooden cross so the sleeves flap like waving arms. From a distance the effect is meant to fool a hungry bird into thinking a human guard is on patrol.  \nFooling birds, it turns out, is a very old worry, and the Egyptians may have been  \namong the first to try it. Along the Nile River, farmers are believed to have set wooden frames and nets in their wheat fields to trap or frighten flocks of quail before the birds could strip the grain. The ancient Greeks took a different approach, carving wooden figures of a minor god named Priapus, who was said to protect gardens, and standing them among the vines. People told a story that Priapus was so ugly the birds fled atthe sight of him, which is probably the earliest scarecrow that was meant to be scary on purpose.  \nUgliness was optional, but the idea of a human-shaped guardian traveled surprisingly far. In medieval Britain, records suggest that young children called \"bird-scarers\" were hired to walk the fields waving rattlesand hurling stones at crows. When plague swept through and left fewer workers to spare, farmers began stuffing old clothes with straw and standing those up instead, letting a still figure do the shift a child once worked. So the classic straw scarecrow you imagine today partly exists because there simply weren't enough hands to chase the birds by then.  \nHalfway around the world, farmers in Japan had reached the very same idea on their own. There the field guardian is called a kakashi, a word that comes from a term meaning\"something that smells bad,\" because the earliest versions were rags and old fish bones set on fire to drive off birds with their stink. Later the kakashi became a straw figure dressed in a farmer's coat and a round hat, sometimes given a bow to look ready for a fight. In Japanese folklore a mountain deity called Kuebiko was even imagined as a scarecrow who cannot walk but knows everything in the world, having stood watching the fields forever.  \nA guardian that knows everything sounds impressive, but here is the uncomfortable truth: scarecrows aren't very good at their one job. Birds are clever, and researchers have found that crows in particular quickly learn a straw figure never actually moves or throws anything, so they go right back to feasting. That is why modern farms mix things up with reflective tape, propane cannons that pop like fireworks, and shapes that flap or spin unpredictably. The lesson scientists keep repeating is that a scare only works if it keeps changing, which a motionless dummy never does.  \nIf they don't guard the corn, why do people still build them by the thousands every autumn? The answer is that the scarecrow has quietly changed jobs, trading farm work for festival fame in places like Nagoro, Japan, and countless small towns across Britain and the United States. At these fall gatherings neighbors  \nstuff burlap and flannel into whole villages of figures, staging them fishing, riding bikes, or reading newspapers for crowds of visitors. The oldest guardian in the field has become one of the friendliest faces of the harvest season, which may be the strangest trick a straw person ever pulled.  \nScarecrows Around the World  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which two ideas does the article develop from beginning to end?\u003Cbr>A. 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