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Ingenious Robins and Their Basket

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 20.

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Ingenious Robins and Their Basket

A SINGULAR instance of the ingenuity of birds was noticed at Detroit the other day, where two robins were seen to be toiling away at a small toy basket, which had been left in a dooryard. Evidently thinking it would make a palatial nest the birds were pulling and dragging it along over the grass, but were unable to get hold of it in such a way as to fly off with it. They accordingly left it, but soon returned with a string about eight feet long, which they drew through the basket, and each taking one end in its bill, flew briskly away with the basket hanging on its swing between them.