Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 59
ason why, when a pine or hemlock forest iscut away, oaks and chestnuts are so apt tospring up. These nuts can be planted in newplaces only by the aid of birds and squirrels. A clergyman writes me from a New Englandtown of something he found in his winter walksthat puzzled him very much. It was an… … THE ORCHARD ORIOLES NEST. corn in the same blind way that he hides theacorns. I have seen the jays in winter carryaway corn and put it into an old worms nest ina wild-cherry tree, and drop it into knot-holes inthe tree-trunk. It is doubtful if the jay candigest corn swallowed whole. It is too hard…
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