Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — Eggs In the Nest. [ARTICLE]

Eggs In the Nest.

A charming story is toldi of Corliss, the great engine builder, in Food, Home and Garden: A short time before his death Corliss found it necessary to enlarge his great machine shops, and set a squad of men at work to prepare the material for building. While the masons were arranging to blast a huge rook, a workman, pointing to a bird hovering over a ledge high ap in the rock, said: "That bird will have to change its nesting in short order if it wants to •ave its neck.” “Are there eggs in the nest?" inquired Mr. Corliss, with evident interest. “Yes, four littlfe speckled fellows over which the mother bird has been fussing ever sinoe we began to work," replied the man. “The yonng birds will soon be peeping through the delicate shells.” “Then let the work stop until the, hirelings are ready to fly,” was the* jreat-hearted man’s command.