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STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 



THE WHITE-THROAT. 



A PAIR of white-throats built their nest in a shrubbery, and the kind owner 

 of the place watched over them with the utmost care. The task had been 









WHITE-THROATS. 



completed, and the mother bird was sitting on her eggs, when, one morning, 

 as the gentleman was walking at some distance from the nest, he saw a 

 broken egg-shell lying on the ground. 



