NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
to try her wings. In the end the mother 
starved her to it by refusing to feed her in 
the nest. She would fly almost to the timid 
one’s side with a tempting worm in her bill, 
““We are so hungry” 
and making a little coaxing noise, alight on 
the tree twenty feet away. At last hunger 
prevailed over fear, and the fledgling made a 
brave effort to reach her supper. Strange 
to say, she was the only one who succeeded 
in alighting on the tree. She was really bet- 
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