6 4 
A SUMMER RESIDENT 
Then it is pounded on the ground, tied neatly in a 
bundle, and carried speedily to the nest to fill those 
gaping, yellow throats* After the greedy progeny 
leave the nest and learn to cry out for food the 
parents become still more assiduous* The biggest 
and fattest of the brood cry out the loudest, and as 
a consequence get the most food* Sometimes after 
one lusty-throated little gourmand has been fed into 
temporary quietness with half a do^en worms, a little, 
attenuated twin -brother, sitting unobserved in the 
shadow of a limb, is given an unattached worm, 
which he swallows in silent thankfulness* When the 
demands of the brood seem almost insatiable the 
weary and overworked parents suddenly decide to go 
on strike* There is an outburst of indignation on the 
part of the full-grown progeny* They seem to feel 
grievously wronged* They dart at the idling parents 
as if to drive them off in search of food* They chase 
them from place to place in vain* The elders submit 
to everything but a return to parental serfdom* In a 
day the importunate juniors realise that their support 
has been withdrawn and learn to get along without 
it* Now they are making their own way in the world, 
and for a time the mellow songs of early spring are 
renewed* Soon the cares and delights of a second 
brood will supplant the joys of the interval of song* 
