the next morning there were two of them sitting 
on the same limb. 
II 
Dip you ever see a kingbird’s nest? If not, 
you have yet to see one of the most beautiful 
nests that has ever been built in an apple tree. 
This one was not begun for several days, and of 
course it was two weeks or more before it was 
finished. Edith’s home was made of boards, the 
one near by was of brick, and over on the hill 
was a fine mansion built of stone; but the king- 
birds used none of these things. Here is a 
list of the building materials they gathered and 
shaped into a cradle away out there near the end 
of a swaying limb. First there were a number of 
dead weed-stalks placed in a crotch where two 
branching twigs grew out from the limb. In this 
rough basket were then placed billfuls of dried 
grass, a piece or two of paper, a dead leaf, and 
some feathers. It was lined with more grass 
and woven in with fine roots and all pressed out 
smooth and round by the mother-bird’s breast. 
After the four spotted eggs were hatched the 
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