" Across tlie road, in an 

 apple-ti'6'e, built a pail" 

 of redstarts." 



when a bicycle was being cleaiied beiieatli the 

 tree, the inqnisiti'\"e paii' di'opped down, the 

 feiiiah^ actually lighting vipun the handle-bar t<i 

 see Ikiw the dusting was done. On another oc- 

 casion she attempted to settle upon the baby 

 swinging imder the tree in a hammock ; and 

 again, when I caught one of her own babies in 

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