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Show yunr Kud eits. Birds have some i;i.--. r ittneie fn select se-lect inu wjiota tor Luii-liri their nets. Some lime ugo. nt-at S-nulk'. New JVr-ney. JVr-ney. 1 noliced in u urt-veot i-uks, llmt m-arlv t-v't-rv in-e h;ul uri old tin can milled up in it i found on elimination thai ihe cans wvrt- nli iH-t-iiph-d by wrens and bluel'irdH Itut what attracted my I attention niol was an old Ixtul fastened in ODe of ihe lives As 1 approached il a I'lLii'hird Hew out. anil although it was twenty -live feet from the ground. 1 climbed up and saw inside rive young binLs comfortably silting in ihe nesL 1 once lound a veritable tower nest, built by u pair of robbins They bad built a nest in a cedar tree, ami it had Ut-n found unsuitable for no me reason that they alone knew Immediately afterwards they built ft second one on top of it, and siill being unsatisfied, they built a third one Hut they wery very-hard very-hard to please, for still another nest was constructed til) top of the third one. and a liflh one on lop of ihe fourih. lief ore they were contented con-tented to begin housekeeping Not long after that lour little heads were peeping over the edge of their lofty home. An old gentleman once told me that his wife, on a certain wash day, missed a lace cap that he had hung out on the line and fustened with a clothes pin. Several days afterward, when walking Ui his garden, he noticed something white fluttering in the branches of a cherry tree, and an examination showed that a pair of robins had taken tho cap from the line and fastened it auiong tho twigs and grass of their nest. Tho birds had undoubtedly un-doubtedly pulled tho cap from between the prongs of the clothes pinB, for they could nol otherwise have obtained it. They were left in undisturbed possession of their prize. A pair of sparrows In Central park, New York, have regularly, for several years, built their nest and reared their young ones in the right hand of Daniel Webster's statue. But a stranger place than that has been used by a pair in Charing Cross, London, for six years past These brave little fellows have maae their homo right in the mouth of a lion but the lion is made of Btono. Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times. |
