Birds and their nests

Hyphenation has been standardised.

ROBIN AND NEST.
BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS,
MARY HOWITT.
With Twenty-three Full-page Illustrations by Harrison Weir.
NEW YORK:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, 416, BROOME STREET.
London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row.
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WATSON AND HAZELL, Printers , London and Aylesbury.
The birds in these pictures of ours have all nests, which is as it should be; for how could the bird rear its young without its little home and soft little bed, any more than children could be comfortably brought up without either a bed to lie upon, or a home in which to be happy.