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WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



of green hay, evidently plucked from the hole in 

 which it was built, but the other had all or 

 nearly all its outer wall made of dead leaves, 



gathered from 

 a ditch close 

 by, which ren- 

 dered it a very 

 conspicuou s 

 brown object. 



The wife of 

 a country 

 friend of ours 

 one day 

 threaded a 

 sewing - needle 

 with black cot- 

 ton in her bed- 

 room, and 

 hearing one of 

 her children 

 cry out down- 

 stairs, laid it 

 carefully on 



HOOKS >"ESTS. 



her dressing- 



table and 



hastened below to see what was the matter with 

 her bairn. Upon returning to do her mending 

 she was astonished to discover that both needle 

 and thread had vanished. A few days afterwards 

 her husband and my brother found the thread 



