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At one corner write down the date and the name of the leaf. Bird-boxes You can win honours in Woodcraft if you make a successful bird-box. That is one made by yourself, and used by some bird to raise its brood in. There are three kinds of birds that are very ready to use the nesting places you make. These are the Robin, Wren, and Phoebe.
The house itself, a rambling structure of logs, with additions of undressed lumber, was without lights. The cabin, which had been the pioneer nucleus, still stood windowless and with mud -daubed chimney at the center. About it rose a number of tall poles surmounted by bird-boxes, and at its back loomed the great hump of the mountain.
Being clever in devising schemes for achieving things most to be desired, he began giving out bird-boxes to those who would agree to put them up, and to watch and defend the birds when they came to make their homes with them. And he found that no more faithful sentinel ever stood on guard than the boy who had a bird-house all his own. Here was the solution to the vexed problem.
A sweet, twittering song. Nests in the hollows of dead trees, usually in old Woodpeckers' holes, but occasionally in bird-boxes. Eggs pure white. A good Citizen of the United States, but more shy than the Martin and Barn Swallow; these two often return, year after year, to some favorite nesting place, but the Tree Swallow is not so reliable. A Sky Sweeper. The Bank Swallow
Phillips gave away 500 bird boxes, 500 sweet cherry trees and 200 mulberry trees. The sun shone brightly, 500 flags waved in Carrick, the Governor made one of the best speeches of his life, and Erasmus Wilson, faithful friend of the birds, wrote this good story of the occasion for the Gazette-Times of Pittsburgh: The Governor was there, and the children, the bird-boxes, and the young trees.
A Citizen of the United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. A Ground Gleaner "We all know Jenny Wren!" cried the children. "The Farm is full of Jennies and Johnnies!" "They build in bird-boxes," said Dodo. "And in old tin cans, and water pots, and anything they find," said Rap.
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