Excerpt from All the Year With Nature MY earliest memory of birds-nesting is that of having been lifted up, while yet wearing a pinafore, to see the sky-blue eggs of a hedge-sparrow that had built among the black hawthorn-s by the roadside. It was before their first grey buds had developed into green, or the violet had flowered at their roots. The cock bird sat on the top rail of a gate and girded at us. Fiercely in his thin little voice, and his mate fluttered uneasily to and fro' along the fence. To this day 'billy's' artless note is as welcome as the song of lark or nightingale. But a time soon came for rambling in search of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.