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could find out where they had
gone.

He walked about very softly and
gently in that same woody spot
where he had tried to catch them ;
but for a good while there was not a
bird to be seen.

At last, however, he thought he
heard a little chirping somewhere up
over his head; and then a bird flew
over him; and when he looked up
to discover where it went, what do
you think he saw? Oh, such a
pretty sight! Up there, right in the
boughs of one of the low trees that
rose out of the bushes there was a
good big nest. Out of the top of
the nest stretched three little heads,

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