Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 572
Presumably it was the cuckoo who hadpierced the egg of the robin before placing her ownthere. Rather than hatch the strange egg, therobin had deserted the nest, and the eggs had re-mained there ever since the summer. But to return after this long detour to my long- ago nesting-route. One morning I… … THE SENTINEL SOUNDS HIS WARNING NOTE (SEE NEXT PAGE) No matter how qsentinel would see me uietly I went nor how carefully I hid, some crafty old^efore I came within gunshot torn down and the eggs gone. The catbirdsnest was empty. Three of the newly-hatchedrobins were missing and the fourth lay…
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