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same habit of surveying the world from her doorway, 

 and munil\>tint{ the same annoyance at our presence 

 wlu-n she was returning to the nest; but she carried in 

 more beetles in the course of the day and worked much 



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 LEAVING NEST 



more rapidly. Between nine and eleven o'clock one 

 morning she brought in five loads, and some of the 

 journeys occupied only ten minutes. 



The first time that she found us sitting by her nest she 

 circled about for nearly an hour, seeming unable to 

 make up her mind to enter. At length we withdrew a 

 little way, but still her suspicions were not entirely 



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