. St. Nicholas [serial] . : In a grain-field near Hempstead, L. I., I foundart old coat and a hat set up as a scarecrow, thesleeves being stretched out on a crosswise dreadful this may have seemed to theperson who set it up, the little creatures it wasmeant to frighten away were not in the least scaredby it; for in one of the side pockets of the coat, apair of cedar-birds had built a cozy nest. When Isaw the scarecrow, the little home was filled withunfledged birds, cheeping and crying, their crestsraised, while the mother, perched on a smallbranch which stuck out above the scare
. St. Nicholas [serial] . : In a grain-field near Hempstead, L. I., I foundart old coat and a hat set up as a scarecrow, thesleeves being stretched out on a crosswise dreadful this may have seemed to theperson who set it up, the little creatures it wasmeant to frighten away were not in the least scaredby it; for in one of the side pockets of the coat, apair of cedar-birds had built a cozy nest. When Isaw the scarecrow, the little home was filled withunfledged birds, cheeping and crying, their crestsraised, while the mother, perched on a smallbranch which stuck out above the scarecrows hat,was gently twittering good-byes to her noisy brood,before going to forage for their breakfast. Strange place that for a birds-nest! And yet notso strange, nor dangerous, if the bird was small,and Mr. Scarecrow did his duty well by fright- 56 SOME CURIOUS XE S T S . [November, ening the hawks and other winged enemies the little parents builded better than theyknew; but it may be they had found out in. IHt NEST IN THE SCARECROW some strange way that the ugly looking gentlemanstanding always in that one place in the field wasno enemy, and would even protect them. At anyrate, this does not seem to be the first instance of abirds-nest in a scarecrow, for in the same letterD. B. sends this record of another : When telling about this strange discovery tosome friends, one of them recalled a similar inci-dent which he had once read about, and aftersearching some time, among old papers, we finallyfound the account in a number of Our Young it is : It was in the bosom of a stuffed effigy, whichhad been set up to scare away the crows from ourcorn. A bunch of pea-sticks and a little hay, dressed up in most artistic fashion with a suit ofJohns old clothes,—trousers, vest, and coat, toppedout with an old hat, which soon blew away,— formed this awfulscare. And funnyenough it was tosee a pair of littlepewees making itsacquaintance; look-ing up its legs ofsti
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