_Two babies, not yet out of their eggshells, hidden among the rushes_ 53 _While their children were napping, Gavia and Father Loon went to a party_ 61 _At Work in the Plaster Pit_ 72 _The Hunting Flight_ 74 _They always chatted a bit and then went on with their work, placing their plaster carefully_ 77 _Quaint Clay Pottery_ 81 _A Famous Landmark_ 85 _Above all other creatures of this great land he had been honored_ 87 _The Yankee-Doodle Twins_ 90 _In this Mother Crow had laid her eggs_ 101 _"Kah! Kah! Kah!" he called from sun-up to sun-down_ 109 _Corbie slipped off and amused himself_ 116 _She wore, draped from her shoulders, snowy plumes of rare beauty_ 122 _Near Ardea's Home_ 124 _That criss-cross pile of old dead twigs was a dear home, and they both guarded it_ 127 _The Flying Clown_ 135 _Peaceful enough, indeed, had been the brooding days_ 141 _The little rascals could practise the art of camouflage_ 144 _Suppose you should find just one pair_ 153 _Through all the lonesome woods there is not one dove_ 158 _Once, so many flew by, that the sound of their wings was like the sound of thunder_ 161 _Oh, the wise, wise look of him_ 165 _Solomon knew the runways of the mice_ 168 _Those five adorable babies of Solomon_ 171 _He passed the brightest hours dozing_ 174 _It was time for the Feast of the Vagabonds_ 185 _Something south of the Amazon kept calling to him_ 189 _Nature has kept faith with him and brought him safely back to his meadow_ 195 BIRD STORIES I CHICK, D.D. Right in the very heart of Christmas-tree Land there was a forest of firs that pointed to the sky as straight as steeples. A hush lay over the forest, as if there were something very wonderful there, that might be meant for you if you were quiet and waited for it to come. Perhaps you have felt like that when you walked down the aisle of a church, with the sun shining through the lovely glass in the windows. Men have often called the woods "temples"; so there is, after all, nothing so very strange in having a preacher live in the midst of the fir forest that grew in Christmas-tree Land.