MR. AND MRS. CHEWINK 



resort. This resort is a place where there is 

 food and water, and many birds that rear 

 two broods take the first brood to the spot, 

 so the mother-bird can feed the second fam- 

 ily unmolested. Mr. Chewink visited the ban- 

 ished birds several times each day. The bird 

 resort was near a little pond on my road to 

 the city. One of the young birds was bright 

 enough to remember me, and intelligent 

 enough to follow me to the cabin. His father 

 found him in the dooryard, and pecked and 

 beat him and drove him into the bushes. But 

 the plucky little fellow insisted, and remained 

 in spite of the whippings he got from his 

 father. I returned from the city one after- 

 noon, and found .a black snake had swallowed 

 the second brood, and was sleeping it off on 

 a sunny patch of bed-rock. I killed the snake. 

 The next day the banished birds were brought 

 back. 



Mrs. Chewink remained about the dooryard 



most of the time. She would go after berries 



with the rest of the family, but her stay was 



short. At meal-time she would hop on the 



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