Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 549
ides whereshe also finds a sheltered ledge for her mossynest. And such a nest! We have a little plantcalled birds nest, but it seems hardly more ofa plant than does the phcebes nest seem a kindof moss-plant growing on the side of its mossyrock just above the laughing brook. I haveknown birds to… … THE NEST OK A PHCEBE. About half-way up on the under side of a big rock by the brook. a happy pair and four or five pretty eggs, itwas pitiful to see only a solitary cold egg.Then to look at the beautiful and wonderfullittle house and think that all that patient workhad been done in vain! But after…
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