214 BIRDS' NESTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



ON the Saturday following the incidents 

 recorded in the chapter preceding the last, 

 Mr. Miller, accompanied by his son, paid a 

 visit to the market -town of K , distant 

 about six miles from their house. As they 

 went in a carriage, there was no possibility of 

 pursuing the new study, though Henry's eye 

 followed every bird that crossed the road, and 

 frequent were the exclamations " What a 

 good place for a whitethroat's or a chaffinch's 

 nest ! " 



As they drew near the town, the unusual 

 number of carts, horsemen, and people on 

 foot, showed that it was market day. Henry, 

 who lived quite in the country, and rarely 

 visited the town, soon became so much in- 

 terested in watching all that was going on, 

 that for a time he forget his late engrossing 

 amusement. 



