was Put out to Nurse 
made up their minds to go back all the 
long way they had come, and visit once 
more the green fields of the land of their 
birth. And one fine May morning the 
welcome cry of ‘cuckoo’ was heard 
from the very same hedge, in the same 
orchard, where the two hedge-sparrows 
had made their nest—that same nest 
into which Mrs. Cuckoo nearly a year 
ago had so slyly placed one of her own 
eggs, 
And these young cuckoos, not know- 
ing how to make any nest of their own, 
each did the very same thing that 
its mother had done. Some of them 
looked out for the nests of the hedge- 
sparrows, and others chose those of 
wagtails and robins, redstarts, willow- 
wrens, or other small birds. And so 
they and their children and _ their 
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