... their abode. A knot-hole which led to the decayed interior was BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN BURROUGHS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LOUIS AGASSIZ ... currents glance and run,And buckets shine on sturdy boles,The forest folk peep from their holes,And work is play from sun to sun. The downy beats his sounding limb,The nuthatch pipes his nasal ... fragment of a wall several feet high, rising from the edge of the languid current. In a niche in this earthy wall, and visible and accessible only from the water, a phœbe had built her nest and...