Show I 1 ar IN i t ia T LE NE 13 BIRDS NEST CHANGED ROAD thousands of men horses and turned aside to avoid doing harm to Song songsters horne honie some years yeara ago gen david S stanley of the united states army was waa leading a force across tho the plains ile ho was laying out tho the route for a gr great eat railroad there were 2000 men 2500 horses and mules and a train ot of wagons heavily ladon laden one day the general was riding at the head ot of the broad column when suddenly oud denly his voice rang rang out billal haiti til A birds nest neat lay on the aroun ground d directly in front of him in another moment the horses would have tram trampled plod on the nestlings nest lings linge the mother bird was hying flying about and chirping in tho the greatest anxiety but the brave general had not brought out his army to destroy a birds nest ile he halted for a moment looked at tho the little birds in tho the nest below and then gave gavol the tho order lett left oblique I 1 men alen horses mules and wagons turned aside and spared the home of helpless blid bird months and oven even years after those who crossed the plains saw a great bond in the trail it was the bond bend mado made to avoid crushing the birds nest neat young peoples paper |