. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . ghtened that instead of climbing back on the plank,he started to wade ashore, despite my protests. Deeperand deeper he sank, till he was in all over. Now hewas frantic with terror and began to cry. I thoughtsurely he would drown, but he finally crawled out onshore, plastered with black oozy slime from head tofoot. Choking with mud and sobs, in about equalproportions, he started for home spluttering that Idnever have the chance to get him into such a scrapeagain—how ungrateful! This was just on the borderof the city of Boston, and I
. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . ghtened that instead of climbing back on the plank,he started to wade ashore, despite my protests. Deeperand deeper he sank, till he was in all over. Now hewas frantic with terror and began to cry. I thoughtsurely he would drown, but he finally crawled out onshore, plastered with black oozy slime from head tofoot. Choking with mud and sobs, in about equalproportions, he started for home spluttering that Idnever have the chance to get him into such a scrapeagain—how ungrateful! This was just on the borderof the city of Boston, and I badly wanted to hear allabout his trip through the city streets in that rig. Buthe hardly would speak to me after that, much less gointo detail. This incident goes to show that if anyoneis afraid of mud and water, he or she had better let therails alone and study the safe and darling little chippy-birds! There are some other rails that must receive onlyscant mention. The Little Black Rail and the YellowRail are both very rare, and have almost more the 258. Nest of Sora. They build a little hollowed platform (p. 257).
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