EVE AND PETRO 



As for Eve and Petro, if fear and disappointment had 

 driven trust from their hearts, they still had courage and 

 patience and industry. They sought another and a dif- 

 ferent sort of cliff, and found one made of red brick and 

 white stone. Near the very high top of this a large col- 

 ony of swallows were building; and, because there was 

 no closely protecting roof, these sw^allow^s were making 

 the round part of their nest closed over at the top with 

 a winding halhvay to an outer doorway. They looked? 

 indeed, like a row^ of quaint clay pottery, shaped like 

 crook-necked gourds. For such were the nests these 

 swallows built one hundred years ago on the wild rock 

 cliffs, if they chose their house-lots where there was no 



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Quaint Clay Pottery. 

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