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.here, we lelt the waist in possession of 
he wren, and watched its proceedings. 
About the third day the nest, which was 
! composed of twigs and horsehair, was 
completed. As time advanced four 
vhite eggs with dark spots on them were 
seen. Only two of the eggs were hatched. 
The next year I set up a house made out 
>f a chalk box, for them. It did riot take 
ong for them to build in it, but that 
r ear no eggs appeared. The wren comes 
aithfully every year now, and we enjoy 
hem more than ever. 
Yours truly, 
^ged 11. Willie Ross. 
Mauston, Wis., June 6, 1907. 
)ear Wayside: 
Saturday afternoon about three o’clock 
saw a goldfinch and a young crow-black- 
>ird. The young blackbird was trying 
o get into the schoolhouse door. Sun- 
ay some boys went to the cemetery with 
ae. We saw some chipping sparrows 
nd their nests. We saw a robin’s nest 
q an evergreen tree with some young 
nesin it opening their months for some- 
ning to eat. We saw some cat-birds 
^ying to mock a Baltimore oriole, 
^hen we were looking in one evergreen 
I'ee there was a mourning dove that 
as sitting on its nest. It looked 
) pretty in the nest and it was 
ot afraid until one of the boys was going 
) see it and it flew away. When it flies 
makes a kind of a whistling noise, 
hat afternoon we were in the woods 
par the cemetery and I happened to look 
p in a tree and I saw a chipmunk. We 
sarly caught it but it went into its hole, 
bout every morning when I get up there 
a Baltimore oriole singing its song in 
a tree near our house. It has a beautiful 
song. I have seen the rose-breasted gros¬ 
beak. I think its song is something like 
the robin’s. Day before yesterday at 
noon I saw a bird a little larger than a 
sparrow and it had a brown back and a 
black head with a white stripe going 
around it and over the eyes. It had a 
white breast with brown spots on it. I 
do not know what it is. 
Yours truly, 
Aged 12 Leland de Flon. 
Mauston, Wis., May 22, 1907. 
Dear Wayside: 
One day as I was looking out of the 
window, I saw a meadow lark, so I went 
and got a friend of mine and we went to 
find the nest. We hunted all over and 
could not find it. Then we thought 
we would see where the bird went. 
Just then she flew over with some 
sticks and got down close 1 to the 
ground and ran along on the ground 
through a tunnel made of grass. Then 
she came out and we found the nest. At 
night it flies upon a telephone pole and 
sings. We tried to make it out what it 
said and I thought it said, “My four 
little children!” 
Yours sincerely, 
Leon Pratt. 
Mauston, Wis., May 16, 1997. 
Dear Wayside: 
Tuesday noon I saw a summer yellow 
bird sitting up in a tree. He chirped 
and scratched his neck. Yesterday I saw 
two of them playing in a gooseberry bush. 
The summer yellow bird is rather sm;Pl. 
Its bill is black, head a bright yellow. 
Where the tail begins it is a brown i h 
