A Tale of Two Martins 
and they had to give in to save their own 
lives. And the helpless young, aban- 
doned in the nest—what of them? A 
week afterwards their dead bodies were 
found on the ground below. They had 
perished miserably of cold and starva- 
tion.’ 
1 A fact. For three years running young birds have 
been picked up dead in the same place after having been left 
by their parents in consequence of delays such as described. 
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