. St. Nicholas [serial]. he city have ahost of them, and can see many a strange andpleasing sight if we keep our eyes open. A fewdays ago, while riding my bicycle down Madi-son Avenue, I heard the twittering of sparrows,and, looking up, saw in the mouth of the stonelion on the corner of the building of one of thecitys prominent clubs, the remains of a lastyears nest, and two sparrows getting ready tobuild a new one for this year. It was such anovel place for a bird to choose for housekeep- ing that I stopped and made a sketch of standing on the opposite corner sketch-ing, the policema
. St. Nicholas [serial]. he city have ahost of them, and can see many a strange andpleasing sight if we keep our eyes open. A fewdays ago, while riding my bicycle down Madi-son Avenue, I heard the twittering of sparrows,and, looking up, saw in the mouth of the stonelion on the corner of the building of one of thecitys prominent clubs, the remains of a lastyears nest, and two sparrows getting ready tobuild a new one for this year. It was such anovel place for a bird to choose for housekeep- ing that I stopped and made a sketch of standing on the opposite corner sketch-ing, the policeman of that beat came overto talk with me. He seemed pleased that Ishould have noticed the birds. He said thatthe sparrows had been keeping house there forseveral years. He had often stopped to watchthem build their nests, and later feeding theirlittle ones. These birds would play around thelions head, sitting on his nose or eyebrows assaucily as could be, as much as to say: Youmay look very fierce, but—who s afraid? 726. A PIGMY PASSENGER TRAIN. By Gerald Winsted. Visitors to the Trans-Mississippi Expositionin Omaha in 1898, and to the Pan-AmericanExposition in Buffalo in 1901, will recall seeinga miniature engine and train that, in spite of itssmall size, was in daily service in carrying pas-sengers around the circuit of its diminutive rail-road track. It was John W. Shriver, a youngman partially crippled, who conceived the ideaof building this small engine, and he did all thework of construction himself. The engine weighed four hundred and fiftypounds; its length, with tender, was but six feetseven and a half inches, and the driving-wheelswere but eight inches in diameter. And yet ithauled six observation-cars, in each of which two children could be comfortably seated. The en-tire train, consisting of engine, tender, four ob-servation-cars, one box-car, and a caboose, wasbut an even twenty feet in length. The engine carried six gallons of water in thetender-tank and five in
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