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so. In either case I saw a delightful field opening temptingly be- 

 fore me, and after the manner of all converts I rushed into it with 

 enthusiasm. For example, robins may seem an ordinary fact to 

 experienced country residents, but when they adopted our house 

 as their home and established eight nests on as many different 



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window ledges, we felt that we had become one with the wild life 

 about us. I shall not forget the protesting expostulations of one 

 prim New England woman who cried, " Did you let them stay ? 

 The untidy things!" I wanted to take her to my own window 

 where a robin had used the same nest two years in succession, that 

 she might see what model housekeepers, what neat and particular 



mothers, these same robins are. 



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