Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 73
while the mother, perched on a smallbranch which stuck out above the scarecrows hat,was gently twittering good-byes to her noisy brood,before going to forage for their breakfast. Strange place that for a birds-nest! And yet notso strange, nor dangerous, if the bird was small,and Mr. Scarecrow did… … IHt NEST IN THE SCARECROW some strange way that the ugly looking gentlemanstanding always in that one place in the field wasno enemy, and would even protect them. At anyrate, this does not seem to be the first instance of abirds-nest in a scarecrow, for in the same letterD. B. sends this record of…
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