Everyday Adventures

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Scoville Samuel. Everyday Adventures

Everyday Adventures

Table of Contents

I. EVERYDAY ADVENTURES

II. ZERO BIRDS

III. SNOW STORIES

IV. A RUNAWAY DAY

V. THE RAVEN’S NEST

VI. HIDDEN TREASURE

VII. BIRD’S-NESTING

VIII. THE TREASURE-HUNT

IX. ORCHID-HUNTING

X. THE MARSH DWELLERS

XI. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS

XII. DRAGON’S BLOOD

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Samuel Scoville

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Nearby I saw a robin’s nest, curiously enough built directly on the ground on the side of the bank of one of the roads, and lined with white wool, evidently picked up in the neighboring sheep-pasture. This started me on another of the games of solitaire which I like to play out-of-doors, and I tried to see how many nests I could discover from the same vantage-point without moving. This is really a good way to find birds’ nests, and the one who stands still and watches the birds will often find more than he who beats about. For a long time the robin’s nest was the only one on my list. At last the flashing orange and black of a Baltimore oriole betrayed its gray swinging pouch of a nest in a nearby spruce tree—the only time that I have ever seen an oriole’s nest in an evergreen tree. In a lilac bush I saw the deep nest of the catbird, with its four vivid blue eggs and the inevitable grapevine-bark lining around its edge.

In a high fork in a great maple tree at the corner of the road, the chebec, or least flycatcher, showed me her home. Sooner or later, if you watch any of the flycatchers long enough, they will generally show you their nests. This one was high up in a fork, and made of string and wool and down. Over in the adjoining orchard I saw a kingbird light on her nest in the very top of an apple tree; and I have no doubt that, if I had climbed up to it, I would have seen three beautiful cream-white eggs blotched with chocolate-brown.

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