tect them. The 
next day the blue- 
bird and its mate 
began making a 
nest in the box. 
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the eggs had been 
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laid the owl came 
and looked through 
the hole at the 
mother-bird sit- 
ting there asleep. 
boy who had made the 
box was very young, for if he 
had been older he would not 
have made the entrance hole 
so large, and this part of the 
story would never have to be 
told. After one look the 
screech owl went right inside, 
and when it came out the 
in its 
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mother bluebird was 
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