Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 83
even ifcrude, appeal to our sympathies. We have admired, and, to some extent, haveinvestigated the nests of the more familiar birds;we have seen the squirrel make his home in somedead tree or hollow limb; we have, perhaps,studied the muskrat and his peculiar, dome-shapedhouse. Few people, however,… … A COTTONTAIL CROUCHING CLOSE TO THE GROUND. imagination. Built of huge sticks loosely inter-woven, and situated on some lofty and inacces-sible ledge, with the bones of the eagles victimsscattered round about, it gives a proper setting to
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