Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 98
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, sootysmoke… … A KING-BIRD S NEST IN THE FRAMEWORK OFA MAIL-CRANE. feet above the ground, but, although the gateswung back and forth many times each day, andhorses, cattle, and men were continually withina few feet of the nest, the brave little mother
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