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and cats had overlooked it no one can say, nor how 

 many skunks and snakes and squirrels. The accident 

 that discovered it to me happened apparently to no 

 one else, and I was friendly. 



Cutting a tiny window in the bark just above the 

 eggs, I looked in upon the little people every day. 

 I watched them grow and fill the cavity and hang 

 over at the top. I was there the day they forced my 

 window open, the day when there was no more room 

 at the top, and when, at the call of their parents, one 

 after another of this largest and sweetest of bird 

 families found his wings and flew away through the 

 woods. 



