. St. Nicholas [serial] . tree was gen-erally followed byan impatient eye anda dangerous-lookinglongbill at thethresh-old, the greeting abusy housewife givesan intruding peddler.(Copyright, 1903, by with a bored look,she flipped across the way and sat while thevisitors nosed about and prowled in her naked baby flickers were the ugliestlittle bird youngsters I ever saw. In the heart of the fir the development wasrapid. The thin, drawnlids of each callow pris-oner cracked and re-vealed a pair of blackeyes. Feathers sproutedand spread from the rollsof fatty tissue up and
. St. Nicholas [serial] . tree was gen-erally followed byan impatient eye anda dangerous-lookinglongbill at thethresh-old, the greeting abusy housewife givesan intruding peddler.(Copyright, 1903, by with a bored look,she flipped across the way and sat while thevisitors nosed about and prowled in her naked baby flickers were the ugliestlittle bird youngsters I ever saw. In the heart of the fir the development wasrapid. The thin, drawnlids of each callow pris-oner cracked and re-vealed a pair of blackeyes. Feathers sproutedand spread from the rollsof fatty tissue up anddown their backs. Eachbill pointed ever upwardto the light. The instantthe doorway darkened,each sprung open to itslimit. The nestlingssoon took to climbingthe walls, not solely foramusement. The sharpears of each youngstercaught the scrape of themothers claws the in-stant she clutched thebark of the tree, and thissound always precipi-tated a neck-stretching scramble toward thedoor. The young had little chance of exercis-. ON GUARD.
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