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might well be made use of by the city teacher to stir her pupils to 

 see what interesting live things their city or neighborhood has, al- 

 though the woods and open fields are miles away. 



FOR THE PUPIL 



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a hornet's nest : the white-faced hornet, that builds the great cone- 

 shaped paper nests. 



swifts thunder in the chimney: See chapter vn (and notes) in 

 " Winter." For the " thunder " see section ix in chapter X of 

 this book. 



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cabbage 'butterfly ; a pest ; a small whitish butterfly with a few 

 small black spots. Its grubs eat cabbage. 



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the crested flycatcher : is the largest of the family; builds in holes ; 

 distinguished by its use of cast-off snake-skins in its nests. 

 kingbird : Everybody knows him, for it is usually he who chases 

 the marauding crows; he builds, out in the apple tree if he can, 

 a big, bulky nest with strings a-flying from it : also called "bee- 

 martin," a most useful bird. 



wood pewee : builds on the limbs of forest trees a most beautiful 

 nest, much like a hummingbird's, only larger. Pewee's soft, pen- 

 sive call of " pe-e-e-wee " in the deep, quiet, dark-shrouded sum- 

 mer woods is one of the sweetest of bird notes. 

 chebec: a little smaller than a sparrow ; builds a beautiful nest in 

 orchard trees and says " chebec, chebec, chebec." 



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One had died : After phoebe brings off her first brood sprinkle a 

 little tobacco-dust or lice-powder, such as you use in the hen- 

 yard, into the nest to kill the vermin. Otherwise the second and 

 third broods may be eaten alive by lice or mites. 



CHAPTER VIII 



TO THE TEACHER 



In " Winter " I put a chapter called " The Missing Tooth," showing 

 the dark and bitter side of the life of the wild things; here I have 



