Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 61
battle, she was overcomeby numbers, and fled incontinently to the shelterof a coal-shed near at hand. This did not endthe matter. In the course of a half-hour Pussmade her entry on the scene again. But the birdsseem to have put some of their number on picket-duty, for, as soon as the cat came from… … C U R.I O U S I T E M S A B O U T BIRDS. 529 swiftly as she could to her home, half a squareaway, the sparrows striking her as long as she wasin sight. A NEST HUNG WITH WIRE. The nest suspended by a thread is almost - _matched by one built by a pair of Baltimoreorioles in a tree opposite a…
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