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Why should they beat on through the raw, blustering spring winds to Labrador, when here below them was such a nesting-place as they desired, with solitude and security and plenty. The flock went on, obeying an ancestral summons.
A tall hedge of Osage orange bordered each side of the road, shading the traveler from the heat of the sun, and furnishing a nesting-place for numberless small birds that twittered and chirped their joy in life and love and June.
First of all, a Flicker had come years ago and dug put a fine big nesting-place, and used it maybe two or three times. When he was through, or maybe between seasons, the Chickadees made a winter den of it, for there were some Chickadee tail-feathers in the bottom. Next a Purple Blackbird came and used the hole, piling up a lot of roots with mud on them.
"Lie quietly concealed in the fern and bramble in the gap by the old rowan tree, and you may see, almost every evening during early summer, a pair of lesser whitethroats creeping up and down the nettles and hedge-growth that mask their nesting-place." The insufferable monotony of the proposed recreation!
No one saw it but Robert, and he picked it up and hid it in the breast of his jacket, which had been so often the nesting-place of the golden bird. When he went to bed the feather was gone. It was the last he ever saw of the Phoenix. Pinned to the lovely fur cloak that mother had always wanted was a paper, and it said 'In return for the carpet. With gratitude.
If he missed the company of others of his kind which he would have had during these long days of waiting had they been able to reach their usual nesting-place in the far Northland, he never mentioned it. Unknown to them, Farmer Brown's boy discovered where they were. Later he came often to the pond and was content to sit quietly on the shore and watch Mr. Quack, so that Mr.
Providence had thrown all His riches and warmth into her lap; it was no wonder that both life and happiness had made their nesting-place there. Their love increased with the sunshine, and made everything bright and good; there was no room for any darkness. Pelle met all troubles with a smile.
Look at him in January, however, and you see dark feathers beginning to appear on his head. The fact is, this dark hood is the bird's wedding dress. It comes only when the nesting season draws near. Then he leaves the fields, parks, and rivers, to fly away to the nesting-place. These Gulls love to nest in colonies that is, near one another.
When the birds got back in their own nesting-place, the dwellings suddenly flared up; and while the citizens all ran up to quench them, and paid more heed to abating the fire than to looking after the enemy, Fridleif took Dublin. By this deed he not only took out of the enemy all heart for fighting, but inspired them with the desire to make their escape. Lat. "Ialunga", Icel.
There blackberry brambles tangled about the bases of great oaks and the entire woods trees and brambles made an ideal nesting-place for birds. "Perhaps it's gone," said the preacher as they went along to the woods. "But it's worth trying for," she said. They kept silent then; only the rustling of the corn was heard as the two went through the green aisle.
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