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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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But
after
a
time
the
two
became
more
friendly,
and
kindness
on
the
one
side
begetting
confidence
on
the
other,
the
bird
at
length
became
so
familiar,
that
while
it
continued
to
sit
on
the
nest
it
would
peck
crumbs
from
the
man's
hand,
instead
of
showing
displeasure,
as
it
formerly
had
done.
At
length
seven
young
birds
became
the
joy
of
the
parents.
These,
however,
did
not
find
the
box
altogether
free
from
drawbacks;
for
letters,
in
being
deposited
through
the
slit,
sometimes
fell
on
the
top
of
the
youngsters,
and
so
excited
the
wrath
of
the
old
birds.
This
was
proved
on
one
occasion
when
a
servant
dropped
a
letter
into
the
box,
for
when
the
post-runner
next
visited
the
receptacle,
he
found
the
letter
so
mutilated,
either
through
sheer
rage
on
the
part
of
the
tomtits,
or
in
their
endeavours
to
eject
it
by
the
slit,
that
he
took
it
back
to
the
farmhouse
rather
than
send
it
forward
in
its
badly
damaged
state.
However,
the
brood
at
length
got
through
the
troubles
of
their
infantile
days;
and
we
may
indulge
the
hope
that
they
have
since
lived
to
join
in
the
antiphonies
of
the
grove,
or
to
adorn
the
roadside
spray
with
their
neat
figures
and
glowing
colours.
It
may
be
added
that
these
little
birds
are
very
eccentric
in
the
choice
of
their
nesting-places.
In
one
case
they
selected
the
inside
of
a
weathercock
on
the
top
of
a
steeple
for
their
breeding-place,
and
in
another
the
interior
of
a
beehive
in
full
work.
Here
they
set
up
house
and
reared
their
young,
neither
injuring
the
bees,
nor
being
molested
by
them
in
return.
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