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their wings. Sometimes they fluttered over the sides of the nest so far that I feared they would fall off the high window sill.
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THE BABY ROBINS
One morning the robins' nest was empty, and the young were over on my neighbor's lawn. For convenience I will call this neighbor Mrs. Daily. She lived on our right. The neighbor to our left was Mrs. Cotton.
A birds' bath at Mrs. Daily's and the tree with nesting materials on it showed the birds that they were welcome there. So the parents coaxed their young in that direction.
Mrs. Cotton also tried to attract birds. But her basin sometimes went dry for days. Also, she had a big, beautiful cat that was usually somewhere in the
