Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899

<h2><SPAN name="STORY_OF_A_NEST" id="STORY_OF_A_NEST"></SPAN> STORY OF A NEST.</h2> <p class="ac">ANNA R. HENDERSON.</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">Far away in the beautiful land of Brazil,</div> <div class="verse">Where the birds are all singing o'er valley and hill,</div> <div class="verse">Two little children walked out 'neath the trees,</div> <div class="verse">Talking in musical Portuguese;</div> <div class="verse">And if you will listen to what I say,</div> <div class="verse">I'll tell you in English their words that day.</div> <div class="verse">"Sister," said Manuel, "often I've heard,</div> <div class="verse">That the trees scarce have room for the nest of each bird;</div> <div class="verse">For this is the land of these beautiful things,</div> <div class="verse">And the air seems alive with their songs and their wings;</div> <div class="verse">And I think that I know of a little bird breast,</div> <div class="verse">Which was puzzled and troubled for place for a nest."</div> <div class="verse">"Now, brother," said Lena, "don't tell me a word,</div> <div class="verse">Let me hunt for the nest of this crowded-out bird,"</div> <div class="verse">So away they went roving o'er hill and through dell;&mdash;</div> <div class="verse">Of the nests that they found 'twould take hours to tell.</div> <div class="verse">There were nests in the orange trees, blossoming white,</div> <div class="verse">There were nests in the coffee trees, glossy and bright,</div> <div class="verse">There were nests in the hedges, the bushes and grass,</div> <div class="verse">In the dark, hanging vines, by each roadside and pass.</div> <div class="verse">There were blue eggs and speckled eggs, brown eggs and white,</div> <div class="verse">And yellow throats opening with chirpings of fright.</div> <div class="verse">"Search no longer," said Manuel, "'mid bushes and trees,</div> <div class="verse">'Tis a stranger place, sister, than any of these."</div> <div class="verse">"I give up," said Lena, a shade on her brow,</div> <div class="verse">"Come, hasten, dear Manuel, I'll follow you now."</div> <div class="verse">Then away to the garden the little feet sped,</div> <div class="verse">And he showed her the nest in a big cabbage head!</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</SPAN></span></p> <table class="sp2 mc w50" title="IRON ORES."> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><span class="ac w100 figcenter"> <SPAN name="i_100.jpg" id="i_100.jpg"> <ANTIMG style="width:100%" src="images/i_100.jpg" width="439" height="600" alt="" /></SPAN></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER.<br/> 238</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40"></td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">COPYRIGHT 1899, BY<br/> NATURE STUDY PUB. CO., CHICAGO.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Pyrites</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40">Magnetite</td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Pyrites</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Limonite</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40"></td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Limonite</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Hematite</td> <td class="x-smaller ac w40"></td> <td class="xx-smaller ac w30">Specular</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />