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It was just ten days from the time the structure was 

 commenced^ when it was finished. In four days more, there 

 were two little white eggs, just the size and shape of small 

 pea-beans, laying in the soft little cup. In sixteen days 



Fig. 81. You can imagine hoiv crowded this nest 

 ivas before the first of the tivo young left. 



more, there emerged from these eggs, two tiny, naked mites, 

 looked anything except like the little feathered jewels into 

 which they were to develop. The little birds remained in 

 the nest three weeks. At the end of the first week, tiny 

 little pin feathers had commenced to appear; in two weeks 

 they looked like little cushions stuck full of pins. From 

 this time until they left, their feathers blossomed out very 

 rapidly and they were transformed from the little helpless 



