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Show BUILT INTfJ THE BIROS' NEST. Appropriate Place for Lace Intended for Coming Baby's Cap. A young mother sat undor nn npplo treo while tho blossoms ell about her, listening to tho glad twittering of a couplo of song sparroVs who wcro building their nest In tho Iliac buBh which grow hesldo thl fence. Sho was fashioning a tiny tap of softest lawn nnd lace, nnd smiling to hersolf while sho sowed, nttcr tho manner of her kind. Sho was wondering what the llttto faco would bo llko that would look out from tho dainty cap of ruffles nnd frills. It wan almoit done except for ono little pleco of laco, which sho could not find to finish It. Sho hnd to. glvo up her search for It, though sho know she had had It when sho put her work basket on the grass bo-sldo bo-sldo hor and had gono Into tho houso to got somo forgotten thing. In tho fullness of tlmo hor mothor heart was satisfied, for her child lay In hor nrms nnd slept upon hor breast. Sho carried tho babe out and sat again under tho npplo treo, now ladon with fruit. Sho glanced Into llio lilac bushes bush-es whero tho birds had bulldcd their nest In tho spring and found that tho blrdllngs had taken wing and it was deserted, but cunningly woven into It around the top was tho lust bit ot laco for which when making tho baby cap she had searched so lone in vnln. |