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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 428

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THE SAWDUST WAS BESIDE A SAWMILL, ANDFORMED ONE BANK OF A BROOK. This is a close parallel of the flicker thatrepeatedly bored through the boards of a barn.(See page 651 of Nature and Science for May,1902.) John Burroughs in his recent book, Leaf and Tendril,argues that in such experiences there is… … p-WTW) A SECTION OF A SAND-BANK SHOWING THE ARRANGEMENT AND POSITION OF THE BANK SWALLOW S NEST. I afterwards observed at work. It is rather curious to findhow incapable these birds must be of acquiring any notionof thickness, for although they were constantly flitting overthe low wall, they…

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