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A Mother Bird’s Stratagem. 
WHILE strolling on the banks of French 
Creek, near Clayton, one June, in company with 
my wife and a friend, we started a woodcock, 
which feigned being wounded, and gave utter- 
ance to the most plaintive squeaks, from which 
we inferred the nest must be near. A short 
search discovered it among small bushes on the 
ground in a comparatively exposed position. 




The nest contained three eggs, which we, of 
course, did not disturb. Leaving the nest for 
over an hour, I cautiously returned, and getting 
on my hands and knees crept within ten feet of 
it without disturbing the old bird. After watch- 
ing her for about ten minutes I saw her stand 
up in the nest and with her bill and one foot 
change the position of two of the eggs, after 
| which she settled back on the nest. 
She then evidently saw me, for she gave a sud- 
den twist sidewaws with her head and then 
slowly and cautiously stretched out as flat as 
| possible, her bill resting flat on the ground. 
She remained thus for fully five minutes. Pres- 
ently I arose from my position and stepped 
forward, when the bird quietly sneaked away 
from the nest, seeming to crouch as near the 
ground as possible, until about twenty feet 
away when she arose with the usual cry, but 
| immediately fell to the ground, fluttered up and 
down and finally turned over on her back flut- 
ra | tering her wings as if in the last agony, but as 
mes an I approached she scrambled away, dragging one 
wing on the ground until she had led me fully 
W at eC r T u b e B Oo i ] ers | two hundred yards from the nest, when sud- 
| denly she bade me au revoir, and darted away 



COMBINE EFFICIENCY WITH ECONOMY % UNEQUALLED IN like a rocket. Secreting myself some distance 
| from the nest, in fourteen minutes I was sur- 
DESIGN, MATERIAL AND WORKMANSHIP | prised to see her sitting on it as before being 
| disturbed, but how she reached there I am un- 
STEAM AND SAIL YACHTS | able to say, as I did not see her approach, and 
half a minute before her reappearance on the 
NAPHTHA AND ALCO :VAPOR LAUNCHES | nest nothing was to be seen or heard. As the 
; | woods were open I had an excellent opportunity 
(Also) Builders of} | a ae ee interestias ote and had 
oped to be-able to note the manner in which 
THE SPEEDWAY GASOLENE LAUNCHES the return would be made. 
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| Cooking a Quail. 
Gas Engine & Power Co, and Chas. L. Seabury & Co. fA ovat, as every one knows, is naturally one 
| of the dryest of birds, and it is always a ques- 
(CONSOLIDATED | tion with cooks how best to preserve its juices. 
To take off the skin is to take away the greatest 
part of the juices, and such a quail broiled or 
roasted would be little better eating than cot- 
tonwood chips. In North Carolina they cook 
Member of the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, a quail in the middle of a big potatoe. : This 
little receipt is worth a column on_ skinning 
quail. Mlaheds: 
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