The garden of experience . pgywid The long hair interfered with her play. Chap. Dandy likes drinking from the bird-bath better than from his own bowl. Chap. VIII. BEE-CRAFT 161 He won his demure little brown lady, and theymade a lovely nest in the old dust-bin full of sticksthat had a hole in its side, and I am sorry to sayTatty-Bogle ate one of their children before it couldquite fly. Doubtless the two have now separatedagain after the labours of parenthood, and aretrapseing the countryside in care-free communitiesof nuns and monks. The chaffinches appear to lead a blissful marriedlife,
The garden of experience . pgywid The long hair interfered with her play. Chap. Dandy likes drinking from the bird-bath better than from his own bowl. Chap. VIII. BEE-CRAFT 161 He won his demure little brown lady, and theymade a lovely nest in the old dust-bin full of sticksthat had a hole in its side, and I am sorry to sayTatty-Bogle ate one of their children before it couldquite fly. Doubtless the two have now separatedagain after the labours of parenthood, and aretrapseing the countryside in care-free communitiesof nuns and monks. The chaffinches appear to lead a blissful marriedlife, for though the men-folk are so quarrelsomeamong their rivals in wooing-time, they share thedomestic life which supervenes as if they enjoy complete contrast to some others, ostriches, forinstance. I was deeply interested once, to find thatMr. Ostrich was a henpecked husband, when I hadwandered very far from my garden to stay with agirl-friend. I had known her first in a City office. She wasthen on the editorial staff of a paper, since defunct,which emanated from dingy and il
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