Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 63
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… … A NEST IN A TRUMPET-VANE. Mr.enginehouse. Beard adds that: Very near to the fire-house in Covington was the county court-and on its cupola stood a wooden figure of George Washington. It wasdiscovered one day that in theforehead of this, figure a wood-pecker had hored a hole fora nest! A NEST IN A…
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