Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 455
forfood, first boiling the bulb, and this way, it issaid, destroying the needles, or the spicules, asthe botanist calls them. —Clement B. Davis. TWO ODD NESTING PLACES The first illustration shows a humming-birdsnest, that I took last summer on the porch of afriends house. The electric light hung a… … The second illustration shows an old horseshoe,which a friend of mine hung up in his wagonhouse to hold the buggy pole, and to keep it upout of the way. Early in the summer, a pair ofhumming-birds appropriated it for their own use.I hung the horseshoe in a tree to take the picture. Leo C. Thorne.
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