STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 167 



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HALL I tell you how a boy was 

 JJa once cured of robbing birds' 

 nests? The remedy cost him 

 pretty roundly; but perhaps it was 

 worth all he paid for it. As you may 

 have heard, the black snake often takes pos- 

 session of the hole of the woodpecker. He 

 not only glides softly up the tree, and eats up 

 the eggs of the woodpecker, (or young birds, 

 as the case may be,) but he sometimes coils 

 himself up in the nest which he has robbed, 

 and remains there, quietly, for several days. 

 Some boys once determined that they would 

 go down into the orchard near the school- 

 house, and get the eggs in a woodpecker's nest 

 which they had previously discovered. They 

 went to, the tree where the nest was. One of 

 the boys was delegated to climb it. He did so. 



