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Show BUILT INTO THE BIRDS' NEST. Appropriate Place for Lace Intended for Coming Baby's Cap. A young mother sat under an applo tree while (he blossoms fell about her, listening to the glad twittering of a couple of song spairows who were building their nest In tho lilac bush which grew beside tho fence. Sho was fashioning a tiny cap of softest lawn and lace, nnd smiling to herself' while sho sewed, nfter the manner of her kind. She waB wondering what the llttlo face would he like that would look out from the dainty cap of ruffles and frills. It was almost done except for one little piece of lace, which sho could not find to finish It. She had to give up her search for It, though she knew she had had It when she put her work basket on tho grass beside be-side her and had gone Into the houso to get some forgotten thing. In the fullness of time her mother heart was satisfied, for her child lay in her arms and slept upon her breast. She carried the babe out and sat again under the apple tree, now laden with fruit. She glanced into the lilac bushes bush-es where the birds had bullded their nest in the spring and found that tho blrdllngs had taken wing nnd it was deserted, but cunningly woven into it around the top was tho lost bit of lace for which when making the baby caj-she caj-she had searched so long In vain |
