Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-03
CONF1D1NG WRENs.

| Providence road, writcs Scranton (Pa. J
correspondent of the New York Trib-
nne, and began TO xearch Tor summer
home, A SON OF the owner OF tho place,
who was sitting on tho Yerando at the
;; time, saw the cheerful little birds when
they arrived, and no studied their move
ments all the forenoon. They flow
about tho cornices Of tho house for sew
eral minutes, surveyed every nook and
corner that looked secluded, and then
alighted on D shade tree and compared
notes For some time tho birds had n
confab in low and Rentlc tones, their
actions indicating to the young man that
they hadn't found q place that exactly
suited Thorn to settle down in for tho
summer. At the close Of the consulta-
ton the wrens sailed out Of the tree and
again went to hunting for q nesting
place, and in q short time tho male ran
across ono that seemed to suit him.
On one OF tho largo wooden gate posts
there was letter-box in tho shape Of q
little house. It had a peaked roof,
slot on tho street side for the mail-car-
rier to drop letters into, and o little
door on the yard side to take them out
Of 1t was rain tight, and it stood in
In his search for nico summer quar-
tiers in tho country, tho male wren found
his way into the box through tho slot.
He stayed in it less than minute, and
then he few out, joined his wife on a
lilac bush few yards away, and told
her about tho coy spot he had discov-
cred. Mrs. Wren appeared to be all Of
hutter over tho pleasant news her
proud husband had brought her, and
away they both few at once and entered
the slot.
Pretty. soon they came out and few
across the street to an open fold. 1t
was soon evident that Mrs. Wren was as
we'll pleased with tho box as her mato
was, for in q short time they both sailed
back again, each carrying o short piece
OF broken twig in tho bill. These they
dropped in tho bottom Of tho box, and
back and forth the Industrious little
Filters won't until noon, when tho young
man looked into tho box and found that
the wrens had carried in good hand
full OF twigs and nicely arranged them
as foundation for thor nest. BY
nightfall the birds had got tho rough
work on the nest pretty we'll under way,
and tho next day they nearly finished it.
When tho young man told his mother
about what the wrens had done, sho said
that the littlo birds must be permitted
to keep house in tho box, as we'll as pro-
tected while thcy were raising family
there. So on Monday morning another
box for letters was rigged up on tho
other cato post, and the lady of tho
house watched for tho lctter.carricr that
forenoon and requested him not to drop
any more letters into tho box where tho
wrens had taken up their abode.
On tho fence sho placed food that tho
wrens liked, and she talked to them and
made them feel that they wero Welcome.
Inside of week the wrens got to be 81
confronted and confldinS that the5
didn't seem to fear tho woman or her
daughters. Some sparrows undertook to
modest the quiet birds in tho box, hut
tho young man got his gun and pep
perod away ut them until those that
didn't get killed wcre glad to go.
About week after the finishing touch
had been put on tho nest tho female
laid an egg In 1t. When she began to
sit tho .kind-hoarted housewife opened
tho littlo door and strolscd her,
calling hcr pot names Us she CO.
rcssed her. Whilo she was sitting,
tho inalo fitted among tho shrub
bory close by and, sang morrily,
and ono day q very Intelligent and
highly-prized female house-cat that boz
longed to tho family camc near catching
him. Puss' mistress caught hor up, car
ricd her to tho box, showed her tho fc.
malo wren on tho most, pointinr ont tn
hcr tho hopping malo on tho fcnco and
gavo her "a good talking to-" telling
her that II sho harmed tho birds or tho
nest 1t would go hard with hor. Puss
understood what was said. for not once
afterward did she offer to approach tho
box, although before then sho had ofton
walked along the fence and across tho
gate! She had several chances to kill