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My walk finally extended itself across the railroad 
and up through the lawn to Arnold's house where I was shown 
the Quail's nest. It was just over the wall from the main 
road in an apple orchard, in the side of a low mound close 
to an old stump surrounded by short and apparently dead 
grass which afforded it practically no shelter; but the nest 
was so deeply sunk into the side of the mound that the eggs 
could not be readily seen from above, although they were 
all visible and very conspicuous when we stood in frort of 
the nest a few feet off. Arnold said that the bird was 
sitting this forenoon but we found her absent this evening. 
At first glance the nest and its contents looked 
all right but on closer inspection we were surprised to 
find that all but three of the eggs had hatched . The shells 
of all but two had been left in the nest and most of them 
were arranged in such a way as to loo$ like perfect eggs, 
while several of them had the two halves hinged on one side 
and filling closely together all around the edges of the 
fracture so that it was necessary to pick them up and 
examine them closely before one could make sure that they 
were not shole. The shells of one of the eggs which were 
outside the nest lay directly in front of it, that of 
the other was to one side and a foot or more distant from 
the entrance. ... 
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