The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 57
he nest rather cautiously and timidlyand sat down in the tall ferns. It surprised mesomewhat that neither parent scolded at my ap-proach. After watching and waiting for almosthalf an hour and seeing neither wren, I becameimpatient and knocked gently on the tree-trunkto pay my respects to the brown… … HIS FEATHERS RUFFLED UP IN ANGER AND AN ASTONISHED PEEPOF DISGUST ESCAPED HIS THROAT. or back in the deep woods until the cast-off scalycoat of some snake is found and borne home intriumph as a hearthstone deity. Could it be possible the home was deserted?Visions of all sorts of bird accidents…
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