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ing the nest in each successive season. 

 Although it was so high up in the 

 branches, it was in a secure place, for in 

 the first place the birds had built their 

 home of green twigs which had been 

 bitten off the lower and surrounding 

 branches, for they know that a nest built 

 of twigs which would easily bend, 

 could be fastened to the tree-top in a 

 much more secure manner than with dry, 

 brittle sticks which were to be found in 

 plenty in the fields. Several climbers had 

 tried to reach that nest, but had not 

 succeeded. I remember as a boy I made 

 a big attempt to get up to it, and it had 

 to be a tough tree that I could not climb, 

 but it resisted all my efforts, and the 

 nest has never been reached by a human 

 climber. 



All the lesser birds feared the two old 

 Crows. They were the lords of that 

 Birdland, and very few birds attempted 

 to build their nests near by, for if they 



