[Citizen Bird by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues]@TWC D-Link book
Citizen Bird

CHAPTER V
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Sometimes it isn't so handy for me, but other times it's easier, for in tight places one leg doesn't take up as much room as two;" and he swung and pushed until he was up as high as the rest.
"Here's a nest with eggs in it," whispered Dodo, who had crept out on a limb, where a rather large round nest, made of grass and little sticks plastered together with mud, was saddled on the branch--in fact, a Robin's nest.
"Four lovely smooth eggs, not quite blue and not quite green! Please, can I have them?
I saw them first." "Think a minute, Dodo," said the Doctor.

"A bird will come from each of those eggs.

Suppose you take the eggs away from the poor Robins, you will be killing four young birds, besides hurting the feelings of their parents and making them leave the orchard, very likely.

You must not take any eggs in the nesting season--not even one.

I will tell you what happened once in a field where there were some birds' nests in the bushes.
"The man who owned the field was fond of birds and wished to protect them, but he was so good-natured that when his little boy came to him and said, 'I wish so much to have some birds' eggs--all the boys collect them--_please_ let me take a few, father--only on our own land,' he did not wish to say 'No.' Sometimes, to be good-natured is as bad as to be cruel.


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