. Stories about birds of land and water . THE WHISTLING SWAN. We can tell you something about the swans that live on the banks of theThames. At times the violent rains will cause the river to swell, and the waterbegins to rise. When this happens at the season for hatching, the birds havebeen seen busily employed in raising their nests, in order to save their eggsfrom being washed away by the flood. For eighteen years a swan had built her nest by the side of the Thames,in the same spot. One spring she was sitting on her eggs as usual, when it 248 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. was observed that she was g
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. Stories about birds of land and water . THE WHISTLING SWAN. We can tell you something about the swans that live on the banks of theThames. At times the violent rains will cause the river to swell, and the waterbegins to rise. When this happens at the season for hatching, the birds havebeen seen busily employed in raising their nests, in order to save their eggsfrom being washed away by the flood. For eighteen years a swan had built her nest by the side of the Thames, in the same spot. One spring she was sitting on her eggs as usual, when it 248 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. was observed that she was getting together a quantity of grass and weeds, and trying to raise her nest. As soon as this was noticed, a labourer w^as sent with a load of straw andrubbish, and told to throw it down beside her.. THE BLACK SWAN. The bird seemed to understand what it was for, and with the materialsthus provided she began at once to raise her nest some two or three feethigher. There came a heavy fall of rain that very night, which flooded the meadows, and did a great deal of damage in the neighbourhood of tiie river; but the THE S, ]VAy. 249