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"I shan't," said Phil; "it's too hot." "What a lazy old chap you are, Phil," said his brother. "It's a tree-sparrow's nest, and we haven't got a single egg. I mean to go." Saying which Master Harry stripped off his blouse, threw down his cap, and commenced operations. "Don't go, you'll fall," said Fred; "it's ever so high up, and the boughs won't bear you."
On reaching the trunk, he scaled up from bough to bough, almost as actively as a monkey, till at last he reached the branch which bore the nest, where he stooped puzzled, for Mrs and Mr Passer must have had an eye to safety when they constructed their nest; for unless Master Harry had possessed the activity and lightness of body of the old cock jackdaw he was so lately talking about, there was no chance of his getting any of the tree-sparrow's eggs for his collection.
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