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Show Clever Mother Wood Duck. U How does tho mother wood-duck got fl her brood of 12 to IS jluckllngs from M her hollow treo to thu creek? Hunters, M fishermen, and nature students have M tried to answer this question, and M many are tlio guesses at the riddle. M Mr. William Brewster watched an M Aniericnn golden-eye that hud a nest M In tho hollow treo ovorhanglng tho M water, until ho heard her, after she M had mado an Inspection of tho sur- M roundlngs, utter a "quack" that M brought her brood pell-mell out of tho M tree nnd tumbling down Into tho wa- fl tor. A recent magazine writer says ho M bas seen tho young ducks climb out M 3f the hollow d'wn the tree, and walk M tn the water, which was nearby. Othors U oellove that tho mother carries thorn In M lor bill, taking them by their wings; M there, that sho curries them on her H jack. Country Life In America. M J |