Strange Rooks


In a large north of England town a pair of strange rooks, after an

unsuccessful attempt to effect a lodgment in a rookery at a little

distance from the Exchange, were compelled to abandon the attempt, and to

take refuge on the spire of a building; and although constantly molested

by other rooks, they built their nest on the top of the vane, and there

reared a brood of young ones, undisturbed by the noise of the populace

below them. The nest and its inmates were of course turned about by every

change of the wind. For ten years they continued to build their nest in

the same place, soon after which the spire was taken down.



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