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lime and plaster, and eats it, supporting herself 

 by her wings. The tiny feet are unable to walk 

 or to stand on a flat surface. If window-boxes 

 are fitted to schoolroom windows, and nasturtiums 

 allowed to bloom in them, the humming-birds 

 will come and make themselves at home. City 

 houses can have these window-plants, and so the 

 beautiful hummers may be seen every day. We 

 have known them to drink from a saucer of 

 sweetened water placed in the window. 



