Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 62
feathers, amounting to nearlyhalf a peck. A pair of birds had entered the towerVol. X.—34. through a hole in the dial, and attemptedto build a nest in the machinery of theclock. The slow revolution of thewheels tore their work to pieces, andthey kept on reconstructing it un-til they stopped the… … found A NEST IN ATRUMPET. NEST IN A TOWER-CLOCK. •The birds, writes Mr. Beard, were blue martins. The horn, or trumpet,was used as a weather-cock upon the top of the fire-engine house in Covington. ^i^flPj .^ Kentucky. The birds built there • ■- every year, flying in at both ends. The horn was…
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