MOTHER SPECKS’ NEST 
31 
“Serves me right!” she sighed at last, as 
she settled down once more on her nest. “I 
should not have trusted someone else to do 
my work. Now I shall have to miss all my 
fine swims till these eggs are hatched, and 
like as ^ not I’ll go hungry many times 
besides.” 
Miss Swan, as she swam away, thought 
about Mrs. Specks’ disturbed nest. Then she 
sailed away quickly for home to see how 
her own patient mother was getting along 
with her housekeeping. 
