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... NATURE NOTE Swallow Family DELAYED for several days by adverse cold winds. the house martins have at last returned to their old mud nests under the eaves. If the chill winds do not come to stay the forward insecteating birds. they may come later to starve ...

... NATURE NOTE Wedding Days COUNTRY folk will tell you that St. Valentine's Day is the birds' wedding day, but if the weather is mild the winter flocks may break up before then and begin stealing away in pairs. Our ancestors, perhaps, were not unwise in ...

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... NATURE NOTE Cuckoo Pint the April wind blows cold and the early-morning sun shines upon fields white with rime. spring has made headway. A cloak of verdancy .is stealing along the hawthorn hedge. and there are kinecups scattered along the damp margins ...

... NATURE NOTE When birds remain lodged in chimneys—held up by a closed register perhaps—they sometimes survive for a surprising time. Pigeons, for example, have been known to recover after having spent several days in the dark and sooty prison without food ...

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... NATURE NOTE A , ' ' • i I'A; _.. ;i t \ Monster of Oldbury' is no more LDIEICTRY'S giant chimney stack crumbled gracefully down the ISOft. path marked for it last night. For 75 years this 300-ton mon- ster. with brickwork 2ft. thick at the base. has towered ...

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... NATURE NOTE The Honevseekers IT is pleasant to bear the hum A- of bees in early morning about the dew-moist flowers; it is true weather-music and gives promise of a fine and sunny day. In the hot sunshine of noontide the bees are swarming over the tiny ...

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