38 WILD NATURE'S WAYS. 



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SOD HOU__ _ jGRAPHING 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 



me at the time, asked tlie man to secure a spade. 

 Armed with this and the camera, we hied away 

 up tlie hills. When we arrived at the place 

 where the nest was situated, we discovered that 

 the female and two chicks had completely dis- 

 appeared, and that the remaining pair were just 

 out of their shells and left in charge of the male 

 until they should gain sufficient strength to 

 enable them to run through the coarse herbage. 



Placing my cap over the beautiful downy 

 creatures in the nest, I set to work and built a 

 sod house five feet away with giant turves cut 

 for me by my powerful companion. We soon 

 had the horseshoe-shaped walls of the structure 

 high enough for the roof, to support w^hich we 



