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IN NATURE'S WAYS 



When nesting begins, you may know the old birds 

 from the young, callow housekeepers by the masterly, 

 thorough way in which the experienced ones take 

 possession of their old nests. The calm assurance of a 



A young rook "ashing for more," lihe Oliver Twiat 



pair tells that they have been partners and occupied 

 that nest in past seasons : and though they may plunder 

 they are not plundered. Usually one of the pair stays 

 on guard while the nest is being built, the other going 

 alone to collect material. Rooks are very faithful 

 birds, and the same pair will go season after season to 

 the same nest. 



