. Birds of the Bible . ver, tlie small, round bowl of hair was in it from four to six bluish, speckled eggs. Theold ones with endless chatter hunted food for the young,bringing to them in a day hundreds of tiny insects andworms. The feces were carried from the nest, so that onleaving it was innnaculately clean and showed no sign ofever having been used. Because they nested so closely around houses and wereso protec-ted, they brouglit otl* their big broods in safety,and two or three in a year. Thus in congenial territorythey soon increased to great numbers. Thev were vi-rvmunerous w
. Birds of the Bible . ver, tlie small, round bowl of hair was in it from four to six bluish, speckled eggs. Theold ones with endless chatter hunted food for the young,bringing to them in a day hundreds of tiny insects andworms. The feces were carried from the nest, so that onleaving it was innnaculately clean and showed no sign ofever having been used. Because they nested so closely around houses and wereso protec-ted, they brouglit otl* their big broods in safety,and two or three in a year. Thus in congenial territorythey soon increased to great numbers. Thev were vi-rvmunerous west of (ialilii almost to the coast, ihev nistedin thorn, bramble, hazel, and luniper bushes, and amongthe grasses of earth. They built in the vineyards, andInmted worms and bugs on the citi-on, pomegranate, tig,and ()h\c trees of adjoining orchards. Wliile till women and cliildnn cultivated their onions,l)eans, mandrakes, lentils, melons, and cucumbers, thel>;y little s])arrows nesdd among the small bushes or. SPAHROW Xot one of the III is forgotten in the sight of dod. THE SPAiniOW 243 on the gourd jukI f>rapc vines coveriiif; the arhors andhouses. Their notes made cheery acconijjaniment to theworkers, and the birds were busy also; for the grapeand big gourd leaves covered families of ;i half dozen,witli mouths aga})e clamoring for food, and the happylittle parents had to search over herb beds of mint andrue and the vines and bushes for worms. So that they were a ])art of tlie most intimate life ofthe people, and they were conmion residents of every gar-den and friendly with every one. They must have livedaround great cities and homed near kingly palaces, forthey are specifically mentioned twice by David, and severaltimes collectively by men of wealth and high only the gardens of the lowly, but those cultivatedby the servants of the wealthy, were appropriated by thecheery little sj)arrows, ^Iluv were at home in Nazarethand Endor, and
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