A Puzzled Nuthatch. 



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came, and a third time, with the like result. At 

 last one of them took his station on a bit of wood 

 erected for perching purposes just over the lintel ; 

 he saw the nuts below him, down he came upon 



the tumbler's edge, and in a moment his long 

 neck was stretched downwards and the prize won. 

 The muscular power of the bird is as well shown 

 by this feat, as his perseverance and sagacity by 



