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It was just ten days from the time tlie structure was 

 commenced, when it was finished. In four days more, there 

 were two little white eggs, just the size and shape of small 

 pea-beans, laying in the soft little cup. In sixteen days 



Fig. 81. Vou can imagine haip crouded tlvif: nest 

 was before the first of the two youiiy left. 



more, there emerged from these eggs, two tiny, naked mites, 

 looked anj'thing except like the little feathered jewels into 

 wliich they were to develop. The little birds remained in 

 the nest three weeks. At the end of the first week, tiny 

 little pin feathers had commenced to appear; in two weeks 

 they looked like little cushions stuck full of pins. From 

 this time until they left, their feathers blossomed out very 

 rapidly and they were transformed from the little helpless 



