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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 Libraries
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above therim of the nest. Ascending to the nest,I found five bluish slate-colored eggsspeckled with black and with under shellmarkings of pale blue, which gave acloudy or smoky appearance to the eggs.Another nest, holding four incubatedc&gs, was discovered on August six-teenth in the vicinity of the former nest.A typical egg of this species measureseighty-eight-hundredths of an inch inlength and sixty-two-hundredths of aninch in breadth. At twilight, when the sun had droppedbehind the timber, as I stroll through thelane, betwixt orchard and meadow, I lis-ten to the carol of the vesper sparrow,and the pe-chiek of the night hawk.The mournful cooing of the turtle doveechoes from the woodlands. It is likethe cry of a human being in distress. Zee-eep, zee-eep-eep-eep issues from ascore of throats, as a group of small birdsskim the tree tops, turn about and settleon the topmost branches of the appletrees. They are Cedar Birds and havejust arrived from yonder orchard. Gerard Alan Abbott.
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HOW ONE SPIDER KEPT HOUSE. Prilled on^- with the sordid ideaswhich make for cleanUness, I raised myhand to sweep away the silvered intri-cacy which suddenly adorned my win-dow pane one morning and to destroythe culpable weaver. But another impulse gave a sharpnegation and I dropped my raisedweapon, a feathered duster, and pledgedeternal friendship to an intruder capa-ble of such patience and nicety. Plow many a spider destiny has beensuddenly cut short by a ruthless dust-dispelling broom in the hands of a vigi-lant housemaid. This spider. I resolved,should have fair play. She on one sideof the curtain and I on the othershould keep house together and workout as nearly as possible upon a fairfooting, the ideas which animated us. How few pets make their own toiletand spread their own table; but Ara-neina did both and grew fast the while. She soon learned to know me, as Istrongly fancied, and ceased to scurryinto a doubly fortified intrenchment, farback in the corner, when I approachedand

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