110 BIRDS 3 NESTS. 



nest, and you may have it for your museum. 

 But see, there is a pair of lesser whitethroats ; 

 they are certainly here on business. Watch 

 where they fly, and we shall have a chance of 

 seeing a very different kind of nest/' 



Both father and son stopped and watched 

 very carefully for several minutes. The birds, 

 however, did not seem disposed to give them 

 the desired information. They flew first to 

 some tall elms a short way off, then returned to 

 the hedge, bustled in on one side and out again 

 at the other, then crossed the road, and flew 

 up and down the lane, but without once show- 

 ing that they preferred one spot to another. 



" Well, then/' said Mr. Miller, " since you 

 will not show me the way to your house, 

 I must find it by myself. Do you search care- 

 fully down this side of the lane, and I will 

 take the other. You need not look on the 

 ground, nor in the high trees, but only in the 

 thorns and brambles, a few feet above the 

 ground/' 



