. Bird-lore . Nor I ri(;h rKNEi). lu r asckv little gray and white downy chickens not oKl enough to run. and wereabout as large as a newly hatched bantam; but they proclaimed b\ theircries that they were Nighthawks, just as the young Chickadee sometimestells his name before he is old enough to leave his hollow stub. lomake sure of them there was now only one way: They must take abicNcle ride with me to the\illage photographer. Their father was wait-ing for tliem at half past eight when 1 took them back, asleep on tlicnest but faithful still. When they were two weeks old they visitetl thephotog
. Bird-lore . Nor I ri(;h rKNEi). lu r asckv little gray and white downy chickens not oKl enough to run. and wereabout as large as a newly hatched bantam; but they proclaimed b\ theircries that they were Nighthawks, just as the young Chickadee sometimestells his name before he is old enough to leave his hollow stub. lomake sure of them there was now only one way: They must take abicNcle ride with me to the\illage photographer. Their father was wait-ing for tliem at half past eight when 1 took them back, asleep on tlicnest but faithful still. When they were two weeks old they visitetl thephotographer again. At this time tbc\- were five and a half inches longand spread twelve and a half inches. Iheir legs were nearly three incheslong and st) strong ami muscular that they could run nearly as fast as ii8 Bird - Lore. ^; MGHTHAWKS TWO DAYS ) About natural size young Sandpipers, but they did not try to fly and did not make a time they did not get home so early as before, but their father waswaiting when they did come. After that I could not find them again,although the anxiety of the old birds showed plainly that if they were nolonger housekeeping, they were camping out in the immediate vicinity.
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