WHAT I HAVE DONE WITH BIRDS 



THE JAY NEST IN THE ELM 



Sky-larks from the wheat-fields hung over it and their notes 

 of piercing sweetness rang constantly ; Song Sparrows were pip- 

 ing from the fence, and bees droned over beds of calamus in one 

 corner and paid shorter visits to blue-eyed marys and white violets 

 sprinkled all along the west side, where they got the benefit of 

 shade and moisture from the adjoining woods. The Jay could 

 be heard long before he could be seen. He recognized the car- 

 riage as something new and sounded an alarm, until he made 

 every bird of the orchard nervous by the time his fence -corner was 

 located. 



The Jays had set their nest on a limb of the elm which made a 



