Sleep Story 205 – Birds and their Nests
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The Wren's Nest
The wren, like various other small birds, cannot bear that their nests or eggs should be touched. They are always disturbed and distressed by it, and sometimes even will desert their nest and eggs in consequence. On one occasion a friend of every bird that builds carefully put his finger into a wren's nest during the mother's absence to ascertain whether the young were hatched. The next day they worked again with feathers and fine moss, and again went off after having brought in a few more feathers. This was a small wren family, and if there had been 12 or even 16, as is often the case, what an amount of labour and care the birds must have had. But they
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