6 THE ROBINS NEST: 
TOO LARGE FOR 
THE NEST. 
the father to 
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long worms 
carefully and 
thoroughly down the little throats. It 
seemed sometimes as if the little birds 
must choke, but evidently they knew 
how to dispose of all they could gel. 
We were reminded of what a very 
small boy once said: “TI shouldn’t shink 
the birds would like to eat worms. I 
shoo shink it would make ’em shick.”’ 
Sometimes the mother-bird would 
sit on the nest awhile and then rise 
and feed the little oner She had evi- 
dently been preparing the food for 
them; but usually she gave the whole 
long worm just as soon as she reached 
the nest. 
The little robins grew so fast that 
soon the nest was too small for them; 
and then we found that the parent 
ALL QUIET. 
birds had been wise in their selection 
of a building place. The little birds 
were much better off than if the nest 
had been in a tree, as they could walk 
out of the nest on to the fence and 
stretch themselves, preen their feath- 
ers and learn how to use their legs and 
wings, without danger of falling. 
After a while it hardly seemed pos- 
sible that the birds could all stay in the 
nest. they were so crowded. At one 
time, when we were watching, two of 
the little birds were in the nest and 
the others standing on the fence when 
the mother-bird in some tree near by 
uttered a cry of warning, and the 
young birds that were outside walked 
back to the nest. 
RESTING. 
