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built. The Lady Abbess told my sister to take it out, as 

 she feared for the future of the grave stone when the young 

 birds would be hatched. It was removed on the 1 2th, and 

 by the afternoon of the next day another nest was nearly 

 finished in the next compartment between the rafters. This 

 was promptly removed, but on the i4th the third nest was 

 more than half built in the next division of the roof. 



" The bird built in this way all down one side of the 

 roof and then down the openings of the other. 



" The nests were removed every second or third day, but 

 it had no effect in stopping it. 



" When it had been down the second side of the roof, it 

 began again where it had made the first nest and worked 

 steadily down the openings again, almost always in order, 

 and then round to the other side once more. 



"As the nests were taken out they were stood on the 

 ground at the foot of a wall that bounds the graveyard. 

 On this wall there are marks showing where the line of 

 nests began and ended a distance of over ten feet, for this 

 extraordinary bird built over thirty nests. 



" My sister herself took eight and twenty, and another 

 nun, who also looked after this part of the grounds, says 

 she took out 'a great number,' but she did not keep 

 account. 



" The bird built even while closely watched, and I am 

 told ' flew about screaming as if it were mad.' 



" It would snatch up green weeds the nuns had just 

 pulled up as they threw them down, for it got hard up for 

 building material by about the middle of August. It was 

 only stopped at last by my sister pushing holly into the 

 holes, and so preventing any further building operations. 

 Strange as this may sound, I have every reason from 

 knowing many of the witnesses to believe that, it is most 

 perfectly true." 



