To show how the skill of the birds began
At the point where human skill fell short;
For they used what was waste in the hands of man.
[THE PRAIRIE NEST]
Where, think you, a little gray finch in the far wide West
Chose (of all places!) to build and to brood her nest?
Well, I will tell you the tale that the hunter told:
(Strange things has he seen—this hunter grizzled and old.)