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as they glided into their doorway. Whenever they 

 approached from my side, they always stopped on the 

 rail before me and went through with their little 

 entertainment. Gradually they grew more confident, 

 and were less careful to conceal their movements 

 than at first. Sometimes only one came, and after 

 a short performance disappeared. Perhaps they 

 thought me harmless, or that they had deceived me 

 so well at first that I did not even suspect them of 

 nest-building. Anyway, I never pretended I knew. 

 As the afternoon wore away, and tlie sun dropped 

 into the pine tops, the chickadees grew hungry, and 

 left their work until the morrow. They were calling 

 among the young birch buds as I left them, busy and 

 sociable together, hunting their supper. 



