n busily employed in raising their nests, in order to save their eggsfrom being washed away by the flood. For eighteen years a swan had built her nest by the side of the Thames,in the same spot. One spring she was sitting on her eggs as usual, when it 248 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. was observed that she… … THE BLACK SWAN. The bird seemed to understand what it was for, and with the materialsthus provided she began at once to raise her nest some two or three feethigher. There came a heavy fall of rain that very night, which flooded the meadows,and did a great deal of damage in the neighbourhood of tiie…
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