House ''Iren 
to hear him as I am not likely to return for several weeks. 
There can be little doubt, I think, that he is settled for 
the season and preparing to breed if, indeed, his mate be 
not already sitting on her eggs somewhere out in the broad 
meadow over which he makes his humming serenades. 
',7e found a House Wren to-day on the Ritchie place. 
He was in full song about 11 A. M. in the apple tree in the 
middle of the grass field near the apple cellar. 
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