The Sea-birds’ Nursery 
Tue scenes amid which the young 
sea-birds have their first experience of 
the world are very different from those 
enjoyed by the birds of the hedges and 
woods. Their future life is to be much 
rougher, and they themselves have to be 
strong and hardy from the very begin- 
ning or they would never grow up able 
to get their own living from the wild 
sea-waves and to withstand the cold 
and the storms of winter. They have 
no warm nests of moss and _ feathers, 
and very many of them begin life by 
finding themselves on a bare, rocky 
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