. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . kened forthe sake of peace. In the scuffle and generalupset the egg—their first arrival—was unfortu-nately tumbled out with the stick, and fell downto lie below, in porcelain fragments, on a wetyellow background. The Sparrows did notseem to trouble about the remains. Havingdropped from the nest, it had dropped out oftheir world. IV After this the pair got along peaceably forseveral days. Egg after egg was added to thenest. In a week there were fiv
. Lives of the hunted, containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings . kened forthe sake of peace. In the scuffle and generalupset the egg—their first arrival—was unfortu-nately tumbled out with the stick, and fell downto lie below, in porcelain fragments, on a wetyellow background. The Sparrows did notseem to trouble about the remains. Havingdropped from the nest, it had dropped out oftheir world. IV After this the pair got along peaceably forseveral days. Egg after egg was added to thenest. In a week there were five, and the twoseemed now to be quite happy together. Randysang to the astonishment of all the neighbor-hood, and Biddy carried in more feathers asthough preparing to set and anticipating a bliz-zard. But about this time it occurred to me totry a little experiment with the pair. Watchingmy chance, late one evening, I dropped amarble into the luxurious nest. What happenedat once I do not know, but early the next morn-ing I was out on Fifth Avenue near the cornerof Twenty-first Street. It was Sunday. The123 A Street Troubadour I M ! 11 ly ii. Z_ J street was very quiet, but a ring of perhaps adozen people were standing gazing at somethingin the gutter. As I came near I heard occa-sional chirruping, and getting a view into thering, I saw two Sparrows locked in fierce com-bat, chirruping a little, but hammering andpecking away in deadly earnest. They scuffledaround, regardless of the bystanders, for sometime ; but when at length they paused for breath,and sat back on their tails and heels to gasp, Iwas quite shocked to recognize Biddy andRandy. After another round they were shooedaway by one of the onlookers, who evidentlydisapproved of Sunday brawling. They thenflew to the nearest roof to go on as afternoon I found below the nest not onlythe intrusive marble, but also the remains of thefive eggs, all alike thrown out, and I suspect thatthe presence of that curious h
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