A MAY MOVING 
and delighted, they viewed it with curiosity. 
Cautiously the bolder pecked it. It gave 
out a tinkling, hollow sound. Lovely ! 
He tried it over and over again, much as a 
small boy pounds a drum. His proud father 
came with worms, but for once he was too 
much occupied to eat. It was too exposed 
a place for a baby bluebird, and the wise 
little parents, knowing this, used every wile 
to coax him into a position of safety. Finally, 
fearing the cat would get him, I drew near 
to pick him up. Away like a flash he flew, 
the other little one following, and landed in 
a wild gooseberry bush ten feet away. 
There yet remained one in the nest, the 
fifth having disappeared on the day of the 
first photographing. This was evidently a 
home body, for many visits and much coax- 
ing from both father and mother failed to 
persuade her even to look out. At length, 
in curiosity and doubt as to what had be- 
come of her, I pounded on the tree very 
hard, and out to the edge she came. But an 
hour of coaxing was necessary to induce her 
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