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On the other side the hand of man manifested itself in 

 two shining ribbons of steel, stretching away into the dis- 

 tance along which thundered the sixty-mile-an-hour express 

 and the slow, lumbering freights, not near enough to the 

 apartment to be objectionable but just right to break the 

 monotony of song and trees and flowers. 



Fig. 224. JACK BRINGS A SPIDER. 



Ten days later the wren nest contained seven finely 

 speckled treasures and the pair of woodpeckers were very 

 busy trying to satisfy the unending appetites of five little 

 woodpeckers. Both male and female Downy would enter 

 and leave the nest without regard to us, even though we 

 were nearly within arm's reach of them. Consequently 

 we had no difficulty in securing a large series of photo- 



