Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 211
the English sparrows that I fixed up a trapfor them. I nailed a piece of shingle on the box under thedoor so that it would turn easily ; I then fastened a weighton one end of it; then I tied a string to the same end andcarried it to our verandah, so that if the English sparrowsshould go in I could… … the bird-house in the tree. Note the arrangement of the moving shingle. be afraid of it and would not go near it. When the blue-birds came, they did nt mind it a bit, and began to nestright away. Your sincere reader, Brewster S. Beach (age 13).From a later letter : The bluebirds are in it and…
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