The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 59
With all his fault-finding, he neveronce offered to relieve his faithful wife. Hidden in the grass, I tried to solve the secretof the fathers petulant actions. Each time thepatient mother returned he grew more restlessand violent in his language. Soon I saw his wifewhirl joyously by with an… … mercy! such a reaching and stretching! tures of the wren nestlings if they were to re- For a few moments it seemed as if the wren main continually within those protected wooden household was to be wrecked. I was tempted to walls? take the mothers part against such cruel treat- For some reason the…
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