Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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and young. Formerly he was veryardent in his protestations of affection anddevotion, but now, as the flowers expandin greater profusion, he finds them moreinteresting than the prosaic duties of home.This home, howbeit, is one of the mostremarkable and aritistc creations of allbird-architecture. It is a tiny, delicatecup, made of the softest plant-down, sad-dled upon some rather slender branch, sodeftly that it seems a part thereof. Thesaliva of the birds is used to compact andsecure the material, and likewise to coatthe exterior with the gray-green lichens sogenerally found upon trees. This makes itso assimilate with the surroundings thatit is a very difficult object to discover.And thereby hangs a tale. A gentlemanhad told me that, if I would call upon him,he would show me an occupied nest of ahummingbird in his orchard. When Icame, he was out of town, but I thought Iwould see if I could not find the nest my-self. So I made inspection from tree totree, and presently the female hummer
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Almost old enough to leave the nest.

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