Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 97
I never saw it. Then how did you discover it ? said Rufus. By seeing a pair of chickadees go into andcome out of a hole in an old birch-tree. I knewthey must have a nest in there, and I felt a strongcuriosity to see it, but I could nt have got at itwithout cutting a bigger hole, and that I could… … THE CHICKADEE FAMILY, ones peep inside, no doubt thinking the oldbirds were coming with food for them. It was verymuch like a woodpeckers hole, made in the softwood of a decayed trunk. The old birds were very much disturbed by mypresence; and out of pity to them I slipped to theground, and went to…
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