. St. Nicholas [serial] . ions in spring and fall. But some-times two or three are wounded, or hurt so thatthey cant travel well, or stay behind their fel-lows for some other reason, and so, once in awhile, they pair and build a home down herewhere we can get a look at it. In fact, the only nest of this bird that isknown is said to have been taken on this veryriver, and we have been looking for anotherstraggler ever since. So you see its rare enoughto make Frankenstein quite willing to give abig exchange or a good price in cash; and thefinding of it would be a feather in my capbesides. By this
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ions in spring and fall. But some-times two or three are wounded, or hurt so thatthey cant travel well, or stay behind their fel-lows for some other reason, and so, once in awhile, they pair and build a home down herewhere we can get a look at it. In fact, the only nest of this bird that isknown is said to have been taken on this veryriver, and we have been looking for anotherstraggler ever since. So you see its rare enoughto make Frankenstein quite willing to give abig exchange or a good price in cash; and thefinding of it would be a feather in my capbesides. By this time the boat had come to a place,about a mile above the starting-point, where 620 THE VIREO S NEST. [June, another stream came in, and the banks werelow, swampy, and covered with a jungle of treesand tangled brush. There are some painted-cups, cried Molly. See how they flame in the shadows, like candlesset out among the weeds! Let s get some ofthem and then go back. All right, said Jack, as he turned the boat THE shoreward; only give mea minute or twoto look round in theswamp a bit. Stepping out where a piece of dry land wasraised around the roots of a great beech, he heldthe prow firm until Molly had leaped from thegunwale to the bank. Securing the boat, Jack jumped from root totussock and from tussock to root, peering aboutamong the foliage, and exploring the shadowyswamp for nests. But none met his eye, excepta robins that had been abandoned, and pres-ently he returned, with his hands full of thepainted-cups and some lovely pink orchids toadd to the few the girl had been able to reachwithout wetting her feet. Jack was loosening the chain, and Molly wasjust stepping into the boat again, when shehappened to glance up, and by one of thosecurious accidents which often come to goodobservers and rarely to careless eyes, she caughtsight of another bird-home, high up on thepliant tip of a branch which reached out overthe river. There s another redeyes nest, she an-nounced,
Size: 1780px × 1403px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidstnicholasserial192dodg
