Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 72
nmarvels of skillful workman-ship.But it happens that, within the lastyear, St. Nicholas has received accounts of someunusually interesting nests ; real curiosities or acci-dents in nest-building, such as you would hardlyfind by searching whole acres of meadow andorchard. Some of these oddities are… … respondents, with accurate pictures, which St.Nicholas has had made from photographs of thereal objects. Here, to begin with, is an account by D. B.,of a nest in a scarecrow; and on the next page isa picture of it, just as it appeared when discovered : In a grain-field near Hempstead, L. I., I…
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