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STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 



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X England, in one corner of the 

 {I ; piazza of a house, a swallow had 

 built her nest, while a wren occu- 

 pied a box which was hung in 

 j the centre. They were both very tame. 

 ^ The wren became unsettled in her habits, 

 and took a notion into her head, one day, that 

 she would turn her neighbor out of house 

 and home, and use the timber in her nest in 

 building a new one for herself. The httle 

 thief! I have seen her doing such things. It 

 is a very common trick of the spiteful wren. 

 Well, she had no sooner formed the determina- 

 tion to do this deed, than at it she went, with 

 all her might. It was not long before every 

 particle of the swallow's nest was removed to 

 the box occupied by the wren. Then the thief 

 twittered at a great rate, as if she had done 



