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turn later armed with a long-handled spoon. 

 The eggs are almost the color of the earth 

 and often covered with fallen leaves, so it 

 needs a sharp eye to detect them. Be very 

 careful not to touch the nest with your hand. 

 Guineas seem able to scent the human hand 

 about the nest, they can also count up to 

 three. For that reason leave that number 

 of eggs in the nest, removing the others 

 with the spoon to insure there being no tell- 

 tale clew left to arouse Mrs. Guinea's suspicion. 

 When you have fifteen stolen eggs, get a 

 box a foot square, turn it on the side, and 

 across the bottom of the open front nail a 

 slat, behind which place a nest of soft hay. 

 Stand this nest box inside (at one end) of 

 another box, two and a half feet long, with 

 sides a foot or more deep. Make a cover 

 of wire netting for the large box, to open like 

 a lid. Scatter sand on the floor, nail up a 

 small drinking pan in one corner, and you 

 have a safe, rat-proof coop for Biddy and 

 the eggs. Another motive for the outer box 



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