Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 98
eems to delight inthe activities of man. One of their nests wasbuilt in the framework of a railroad mail-cranestanding four feet back from the rails, at a deso-late little way-station. Here the lonely postmas-ter came each day and hung the mail-sack, and asthe fast train rushed past, it roughly… … THE FRAIL NEST OF A DOVE ABOUT THREE FEETFROM THE RAILROAD TRACK. tifully spotted, cream-colored eggs were hatched,rearing their young in this peculiar location. I remember another king-birds nest built onthe edge of a water-tank, where the thirsty en-gines belched forth great clouds of black,…
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