NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
disciplinarian, and his rule of conduct evi- 
dently was, I will be master of what is 
mine own.” 
On the fifteenth day there was a change. 
Baby robins eighteen days old 
Three small featherless birdlings were seen 
lying in a mixed-up mass in the little nest. 
Only by their great gaping yellow mouths 
could we tell how many there were, but 
those were ever open. The parents surveyed 
them with such ostentatious pride, I decided 
it was their first brood. For a long time 
both male and female brought food, and 
seemed to know instinctively which one had 
been fed last. They were model offspring 
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