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Title: Eyes and no eyes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell and Company, Ltd
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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mong the rushes, or on a bough of a tree over-hanging the water. It is made of dead rushes, and though it isquite close to the water, it is dry and warm. Ifyou are bathing you may look in. You will findabout eight pale-grey eggs spotted with red-brownpatches. Or perhaps some of the eggs may behatched, and then the young birds will be hiddenwith their mother in the rushes. They are littleblack balls of fluff with red on their heads andwhite tail-feathers, and they can run and swimdirectly they are born. All the time you arelooking, the mother, hidden in the rushes, willcry Crr-ooh^ crr-ooh to drive you away. She is a black bird, about as big as a pigeon,with a bright red forehead and yellow beak. Andshe has white feathers on the edge of her wingsand under her tail. When she is in the water,she keeps jerking her head down, so that you seethe white feathers, and even her green legs withtheir red garters. Very soon after the young water-hens arehatched, they slip out of the nest and sw m^
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THE WATER-HEN AND THE COOT. 29 round her. If you are lying very still among thebushes, you may perhaps see them all come outon to the bank, to feed on worms or snails. Thenyou can notice that their feet are not webbed likea ducks feet, but all four toes are separate.. But if you make the least noise, the motherwill cry ^^KreJc-hrek to her little ones, andthey will dive into the water and swim to a safeplace among the rushes. They will not go backto the nest, and even if you beat the rushes witha stick they will not move. They know that theyare safer in their hiding place. This bird is often called a moor-hen and shedoes go to the moors sometimes. But Water-hen is her better name. And now, if there is a large lake anywherenear, you will see the water-hen there, andanother bird, which you may think is the same,for she jerks her head and dives just in the sameway. But if you look you will see that thissecond bird has not got a red forehead, but alarge, bald patch on its head, and it is l

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