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containing four eggs, and just above in the bank a Robin's 

 snug homestead is found with a similar number of freckled 

 eggs, sitting hard. Not far away by the roadside a Partridge 

 or Pheasant startles us, and we find the nests and eggs after 

 a careful search. 



How beautiful the Meadow Sweet hereabouts, as well as the 

 Fly Orchis, the Buck Bean in the marshy places, and the Ragged 



CUCKOO'S EGG IN NEST OF HEDGE SPARROW. 



Robin. We notice the flowers of the Watercress on top ot 

 one a Wagtail is disporting himself a Dragon Fly whizzes by ; 

 we upheave an Earth Nut ; pluck a Forget-me-not, and notice 

 the bluish purple of the Meadow Crane's Bill, the Sweet Scented 

 Vernal Grass, the fading Hyacinths, and the meadows one 

 sheet of brilliant yellow with the Upright Meadow Crowfoot. 

 I have not yet exhausted the list, how rich we are in wild 



