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Show Duck's Nest on Piling; Bridgemen Guard Eggs MILWAUKEE. 'Most all of adult Milwaukee, and as many children, all of whom are watched carefully by their elders, have looked at the nest a wild mallard duck has made in a depression at the top of a piling in a bridge in the Wisconsin city, and the eggs she has laid. At last count there were nine eggs, laid in nine days, and the show for the spectators still Was going on. Mallards usually lay from 12 to 14 eggs, and the bridgetenders who were guarding the nest were wondering won-dering if there would be room in the nest. The bridgetenders reported that the duck spent about two hours a day in the nest, the rest of the time being taken up by flying jaunts with the drake. Mr. Mallard, they said, while his mate is on the nest, sits quietly across the Wisconsin river on some piling. When she leaves the .nest they fly off together, but the bridgetenders did not know where. Eight guardians of the bridge constituted con-stituted themselves a special guard for the eggs, and they sent out a warning to boys who carry slingshots. sling-shots. "Better not monkey with this nest," they said. |