Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 58
he outer doorway opens into a small ante-chamber, which leads through a small entranceinto a larger room, which in its turn opens bya doorway into a spacious apartment raised onestep above the floor of the other chambers and >9°3-] STRANGE NEST-BUILDEKS. 615 carpeted with soft leaves and velvety… … THE HAMMERHEAD S NEST. where provisions are carefully laid away for theuse of the little ones in times when dangerkeeps the old ones from going forth, or whenfrom any cause food outside becomes scarce.The small anteroom is quite bare, for there theparent not sitting on the eggs stands guard.With…
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