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" He wants to know where I am and what I am about." 



worm's house. Instead of digging the cavity, 

 she often hunts up two or three stones and a 

 corn-butt, which happen to lie so that she can 

 crowd in between them, and makes this shift 

 serve her for a nest. 



Her eggs are one of the world's small wonders. 

 They lie out in the open like so many of the 

 pebbles about them resembling the stones so 

 perfectly that they are more often overlooked 

 or crushed than discovered. The ground color 

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