New Walks in Old Ways 



ful not to disappear entirely, because 

 if she did you might give her up and 

 easily locate her most prized posses- 

 sions. She has no thought, however, 

 of permitting you to lose sight of her- 

 self. In fact, she is clearly inviting 

 you to follow her. You advance to- 

 wards her a step, and she creeps rapidly 

 on a few yards further. Pursue her, 

 and presently — having drawn you by 

 these well-planned movements quite 

 away from those precious eggs or 

 young, as the case may be — she springs 

 into the air and sails away. 



After cautioning the driver of the 

 mowing machine who was now cutting 

 near the nest, I got a good stout 

 sharpened stake and drove it into the 

 ground alongside the Maison du Lark, 

 to mark the spot. No one, not even 

 the average hired "hand," would de- 

 liberately destroy those five little red- 

 throated, big-mouthed bug pockets; 

 and that expression reminds you that 

 being a bird mother is no sinecure. 



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