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was a sort of 
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ing prepared 
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again and 
again to build 
in the unfin- 
ished piazza 
and of course 
the workmen were obliged to drive 
them away. The next best place, they 
concluded, was the wild cherry tree 
with branches almost touching the 
piazza roof and so there the nest was 
placed, and the little mother calmly 
sat, apparently quite undisturbed by 
the hammering and noises going on 
while the house was being 
built. 
Possibly she thought that it 
was a specially safe place be- 
cause the owner of it belonged 
to several societies for the pro- 
tection of birds and distrib- 
uted a variety of leaflets con- 
taining sentiments of which 
she highly approved. She did 
not know that two honored 
members of the family, two 
beautiful cats, had not yet 
joumed® these “societies “nor 
learned to discriminate be- 
tween birds and other living, 
moving things which they had 
been praised for catching. 
However, her confidence was 
not misplaced, for a wire pro- 
tection was arranged around 
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SITTING ON THE LITTLE BIRDS. 
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the trunk of the tree and no cat could 
climb beyond it. 
Another summer, when we found a 
robin’s nest with three blue eggs in it 
on the corner of the fence by the old 
barn studio, we were sorry. We 
thought that it was so near the ground 
the cat would find it and there would 
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