. The century illustrated monthly magazine . mounted the stack to seeinto which flue they had gone. As I cranedmy neck above the sooty vent, with the beeshumming about my ears, the first thing my eyerested upon in the black interior was two longwhite pearls upon a little shelf of twigs, the nestof the chimney swallow, or swift,—honey, soot,and birds eggs closely associated. The bees,though in an unused flue, soon found the gasof anthracite that hovered about the top ofthe chimney too much for them, and theyleft. But the swallows are not repelled bysmoke. They seem to have entirely abandonedthe
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . mounted the stack to seeinto which flue they had gone. As I cranedmy neck above the sooty vent, with the beeshumming about my ears, the first thing my eyerested upon in the black interior was two longwhite pearls upon a little shelf of twigs, the nestof the chimney swallow, or swift,—honey, soot,and birds eggs closely associated. The bees,though in an unused flue, soon found the gasof anthracite that hovered about the top ofthe chimney too much for them, and theyleft. But the swallows are not repelled bysmoke. They seem to have entirely abandonedtheir former nesting-places in hollow trees andstumps and to frequent only chimneys. Atireless bird, never perching, all day upon thewing, and probably capable of flying one thou-sand miles in twenty-four hours. They donot even stop to gather materials for theirnests, but snap off the small dry twigs fromthe tree-tops as they fly by. Confine one ofthese swallows to a room and it will not perch,but after flying till it becomes bewildered and.
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