Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 75
taken a piece of No. 8 sewing-thread 58 SOME CURIOUS NESTS. [November, and firmly woven one end of it into the body of thenest, while the other end she has carried to a pro-jecting twig, some distance above, and there securedit by winding it five times around the stem and thentying it with a… … BIRD-EXTRAVAGANCE that birds know how to benefit themselves in nest-building by using articles manufactured by man, inplace of the poor substitutes which the woods andfields afford them. And, as another proof of this, aletter and picture given in St. NICHOLAS of lastyear, but which will be fresh to…
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