A STORY ABOUT A LINNET S NEST. 



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yards to pick grains, on which they have to hve at this season. They are 

 seen flying in httle flocks, and as they fly utter soft and mellow notes. They 

 change their plumage and spruce themselves up once a year. 



THE SKY-LARK, 



There is a pretty little story about a linnet's nest. It was carried home 

 by some children, and was full of young linnets, that they hoped to rear. 

 The parent birds fluttered round the children all the while they were carrying 

 the nest home, and never left them. The children put the nest by a window. 



