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can only be conjectured, but I presume from the actions of 

 other birds under somewhat similar circumstances^ that she 

 stayed "aboard" the nest and let the cars go over her. 



Another pair of Robins liked city life. They chose a spot 

 in the very heart of a large city, where there were large 

 lawns from which they could easily extract the earth worms 

 so palatable to Robins, young and old, and also near a 

 large mulberry tree; with these two handy sources of food 



Fig. 97. I WONDER IF THIS WILL SATISFY HIM. 



supply they felt that they had an ideal location. The only 

 objection was the numbers of English Sparrows that are al- 

 ways present in cities. The ruffians and our native song 

 and insectivorous birds, through no fault of the latter, can 

 seldom live peaceably in the same neighborhood. I think 

 that these Robins may have previously met with the same 

 misfortune that befell the pair that I will next tell about, 

 and decided that the best way to avoid further trouble from 

 that source was to trust to the protection of mankind. At 



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