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Title: American ornithology, for home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (Worcester, Mass. : Charles K. Reed)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rather a cloudy day, but it didnot look as though it would rain. I went slowly along, stopping toturn off the road now and then to go into the woods to see what strangebirds I might find. I had not gone far beyond when I perceived it wasbeginning to rain, so I knocked at the door of the nearest farmhouseto see if I could gain admittance until the shower was overr Thehostess gave me a cordial greeting and I got into the house just as itbegan to rain in torrents. It rained cats and dogs as some peoplesay, but I could not find either cats nor dogs that had not been therebefore the shower. However, I never saw more cats and kittens thanthere were in that house and spent the whole of the fifteen minutesplaying with the whole families of kittens and asking questions aboutthem. It soon stopped raining, so I resumed my walk toward thenest, thinking nothing about how wet the grass and trees would be.As I proceeded, I saw plenty of chickadees, nuthatches, yellowthroats, AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY 77
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Photo from life by A. J. Myers.OSPREY RETURNING TO ITS NEST. 78 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. crows, warblers, thrushes and the like, but no osprey. While I washunting for the nest, one of the Ospreys spied me and gave his call ofdanger. With his help I finally found the nest, and the birds near by. Soon I saw a violent thunder storm coming up, so I thought best tabe starting back. I had not gone oat of sight of the nest before it be-gan to rain harder than I had seen it that day. It thundered and light-ened also, so I stood under some thick hemlocks, thinking they wouldkeep me dry until the shower was over. It did not, however, prove tobe a shower, but a heavy storm. In ten minutes the trees began to-let the water drip down my neck, so I decided to go home as fast as Icould and risk a ducking. I risked my ducking and got it without anydoubt. Like a spring, in the months when water is plenty, the waterwas running out of my boots every step I took all the way home. Ishall always remember that

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