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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 57

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why the baya should light up his dwell-ing nobody can tell. Some say it is because hedoes nt like the darkness; others that it is todazzle the eyes of plundering bats; others saythat he does not care for the light, but only 614 STRANGE NEST-BUILDERS. [May, wants to eat the fireflies. The birds like… … THE WEAVER-BIRD LIGHTING UP ITS NEST. intelligence to light up his dwelling must beable to do many more things. And so he is.Indeed, the baya does so many wonderful thingsthat it needs a great deal of testimony toconvince those who have not witnessed hisfeats that the truth is being told of him.…

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