and Their Homes 
for them to eat. For after they had 
devoured all the mice and other little 
things, they would have to eat one 
another or die of starvation. 
But when the spring comes round 
again, the wrens, which have spent all 
the winter prying into holes and corners, 
choose the most convenient place, and 
make their nest there. Sometimes it 
is hidden away among the roots under 
a hollow bank, sometimes amid the ivy 
on a tree-trunk or old wall, or in a hedge 
or bush ; very often in the side of a hay- 
stack. And occasionally Mrs. Jenny 
chooses still funnier places, where no 
one would ever expect to find a bird’s 
test.) he has before now built her 
nest in a Scarecrow, or in the dried-up 
body of a dead bird, hung up by the 
gamekeepers aS a warning to others, in 
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