. St. Nicholas [serial]. g the leaves whilewe took their picture, and the mother woodcockprowled around through the thicket, whining anddragging her wings, trying to lure us away fromher babies. Then a little later, on a high, drybank a mile from any water, out from under abush flew a black duck, uncovering a down-rimmed basin of a nest with ten big brown eggsin it. The last nest of the day was found by my way through low marshy woods, acrow flew off a nest not more than twenty feet upin a sour-gum tree, laced and guarded by a thicketof fierce green-thorn. Hurry up! I called to the
. St. Nicholas [serial]. g the leaves whilewe took their picture, and the mother woodcockprowled around through the thicket, whining anddragging her wings, trying to lure us away fromher babies. Then a little later, on a high, drybank a mile from any water, out from under abush flew a black duck, uncovering a down-rimmed basin of a nest with ten big brown eggsin it. The last nest of the day was found by my way through low marshy woods, acrow flew off a nest not more than twenty feet upin a sour-gum tree, laced and guarded by a thicketof fierce green-thorn. Hurry up! I called to the a crows-nest with six eggs in it! He trustingly climbed up through those thornswith his camera on his back, and sure enough! 963 964 THE SKY PIRATE [Sept. there were six eggs in that nest—the only time Iever knew it to happen. When I was a boy, a little over a hundredyears ago, we once found a crows-nest up inBig Woods in the top of a white-oak tree. Thetrunk was far too big for us to shin up, and in. HERE, I WANT MY DINNER! A young crow can eat more food and makemore noise than any other known bird those days climbing-irons were unknown. Upthe side, however, ran the hairy length of apoison-ivy. This vine has a habit of winding itsway like a slow snake around living trees, ensnar-ing, and at the last strangling, them in an evil netof tendrils. As I happened to be immune topoison-ivy, I was elected to do the the great vine was pried loose from thebark it made a very passable rope, and with itsaid, I finally reached the nest. Five youngcrows came down that tree with me, three in one stocking and two in the other, the tops of saidstockings being knotted together and hungaround my neck. My friends, at the foot of thetree each got a crow, while I, as the climber, kepttwo. For the next three days I was kept busyfeeding them. A young crow can eat more foodand make more noise than any other known the end of that time, by special request of myf
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