New Walks in Old Ways 



ful not to disappear entirely, because 

 if she did you might give her up and 

 easily locate her most prized posses- 

 sions. She has no thought, however, 

 of permitting you to lose sight of her- 

 self. In fact, she is clearly inviting 

 you to follow her. You advance to- 

 wards her a step, and she creeps rapidly 

 on a few yards further. Pursue her, 

 and presently having drawn you by 

 these well-planned movements quite 

 away from those precious eggs or 

 young, as the case may be she springs 

 into the air and sails away. 



After cautioning the driver of the 

 mowing machine who was now cutting 

 near the nest, I got a good stout 

 sharpened stake and drove it into the 

 ground alongside the Maison du Lark, 

 to mark the spot. No one, not even 

 the average hired "hand," would de- 

 liberately destroy those five little red- 

 throated, big-mouthed bug pockets; 

 and that expression reminds you that 

 being a bird mother is no sinecure. 



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