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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nd the coming newhens of the twentieth century. Spottie,whom I had trained in the way he shouldgo, when he grew old went the way hewanted to go, a wild and wayward fellow. Some time before they were to startout into the world to seek their fortunesthe Ice Trust got hold with a powerfulgrip and the family were kept withindoors. During those days a wonderfulthing happened. One morning in thisabode I found a beautiful snow-whiteegg. It was golden because of its rarity.I was puzzled. None of the inmates hadbeen outside, and there had been no vis-itors. Every other day there was thegolden egg. I questioned the family.Mother Hen looked wise but non-com-mittal ; the children equally the same.But I saw a smile in the corner of theeye of the pullet I loved best. I watchedMother Hen closely as she went about herhousehold work. Suddenly I was sur-prised ; Mother Hen had ceased to chuck.As I went off with the egg Miss Pulletsaid: Ill bring you many eggs someday. N. Penelope Covert. i :>•_•
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THE LEAST SANDPIPER. (Tringa m in u til la.) Among the shore birds no species ismore interesting than the Least Sand-piper—the pigmy of them all. They arecheerful and bustling little busy bodies,always at work, and while searching fortheir food, seemingly conversing witheach other in a most joyful manner, asthey utter an almost constant peepingnote. They seem to love company, forthey not only associate with large num-bers of their own kind, but also withother shore birds, offering harm to noneand attending strictly to their own affairs.They become excited only when dis-turbed during the period of nesting, whenthey show alarm by flying in such a man-ner as to produce a whirring noise, notunlike the wind-strokes of a startledgrouse. But these Sandpipers are notliable to be greatly disturbed during theirbreeding season, for they nest in theshore wilds north of the United States,where upon the moss-clad crests of thehighest rocks, within short distances ofthe sea, they rear their young.

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