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The beautiful face instantly became soft with pity. "My dear child," she breathed. "My dear little motherless child!" Juliet went into her open arms as straight as a homing pigeon to its nest. "Oh, Aunt Francesca," she sobbed, "will you take me and make a lady out of me?" "You're already a lady," laughed the older woman amid her tears. "Come in, Juliet dear come home!"
To take the bitter with the sweet is their fate, and no rain, however driving, no wind, however rough, can detain them an hour when they feel the call of the inner voice which bids them go. I have seen many birdlings start out in weather that from our point of view should make the feathered folk, old or young, hug the nest or any shelter they can find.
He has not the slightest fear of man; he flies to his nest close to the window, under the low eave, or on the beams in the out-houses, no matter if you are looking on or not. Bold as the starlings are, they will seldom do this. But in the swallow the instinct of suspicion is reversed, an instinct of confidence occupies its place.
After making myself well acquainted with the manners and ways of Madam Ruby-throat, and noting that she always took her departure in exactly the same direction and at quite regular intervals, I began to suspect that she had important business somewhere; probably a nest, possibly a pair of twin babies.
As soon as his mate has squatted upon her eggs, he goes to work at the masonic art; and using his great horned mandibles, first as a hod, and afterwards as a trowel, he walls up the entrance to the nest leaving an aperture just large enough to be filled up by the beak of the female.
THE two girls, on leaving the "Hawk's Nest" with their plunder, did not pass from the narrow private alley into the small street at its termination, but hurried along the way they had come, and re-entered the restaurant by means of the gate opening into the yard.
'No, I haven't any, but I'll teach you how to get it. You're a good lad and won't forget the old man.... Shall I tell you? 'Tell me, Daddy. 'You know a tortoise? She's a devil, the tortoise is! 'Of course I know! 'Find her nest and fence it round so that she can't get in.
There was more than one of us who wished that we too had gone from the column about six hours ago. We would have slept better. Still, it was a good experience to have behind you. Wind and sea went down; all hands felt better especially the lookouts. Those who came down from the crow's nest looked as if the grace of God had suddenly fallen on them. By and by we picked up the drifters.
One pair of birds I noticed through the courtship, the selection of the site, the building and occupying of the nest; another couple, already sitting when discovered, I watched through the incubation and nursing of the little ones, and at last assisted in giving them a fair chance for their lives and a start in the world.
The female is gray, because if she is coloured the same as the trees and branches and her nest, she will have more chance to bring off her young in safety. He is blood red, because he is the bravest, gayest, most ardent lover of the whole woods," explained the Harvester. The Girl leaned forward breathlessly watching and a slow surge of colour crept into her cheeks.
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