IDYLLS OF BIRD LIFE 
Perhaps some of these were within a short distance of their 
winter’s headquarters, perhaps some had gone farther away. 
The old birds, however, remained practically in the same spot 
where they raised their brood the year before. 
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I still watch over my proteges of last winter and so far 
they are faring nicely. If the young survive the winter, Fhope 
to be able to tell of their courtships and their loves, their joys 'y 
and their sorrows, in some future paper. 
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Only the empty nests are left behind,— 
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