The Building of the Nest 



the world outside the more certain 

 their ready response to our appeal. 

 Furthermore, unlike those other fabled 

 ornithological wonders, the great rocs 

 told of in the "Arabian Nights," 

 which only appeared when sent for, 

 these swans are ever with us and are 

 indeed at no time parted from one 

 another. In fact, they are inseparable, 

 useless each without the other. Year 

 after year they stand patiently side by 

 side waiting to do our bidding, and the 

 value of the service they have rendered, 

 and are yet to render, who can cal- 

 culate? Assuredly I cannot. 



Men who are supposed to know 

 about such things tell me that these 

 birds probably came originally from 

 the North. They have even gone so 

 far as to assert that in all human prob- 

 ability they hark back to a primeval 

 home located, say about latitude 47 

 40" north and longitude 93 20" west 

 of Greenwich, and if you will turn to 

 your map you will see that this fixes 



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