NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
flaunting tulips and pure white lilies. Here 
were enacted those tragic comedies which 
form so large a part of a child’s life. Here 
a small girl encountered two very dreadful 
experiences, her first angle-worm and her 
first bird-nest. Down in a far-away neglected 
corner of this delightful garden were some 
red-raspberry vines, and there a catbird 
had built her nest. And it happened one 
day that this little maid, eating her fill of 
raspberries, came upon it among the low 
branches. 
Five funny little catbird babies filled it to 
overflowing. Five featherless necks sur- 
mounted by five terrible sightless heads 
wriggled and stretched in blind helplessness. 
Five big yellow mouths opened for food. 
Here was a chance ! They were hungry. 
The little maid would feed them. Of course 
they liked raspberries ; else why did they live 
right there in that bush ? So she crammed 
them full of raspberries, and then a dread- 
ful thing happened : they gasped, choked, 
shivered, and seemed to be dying. It was 
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