... birds.So grateful were the birds for their resting-place that they chose one end of the island as a special spot for the laying of their eggs and the raising of their young, and they fairly peopled ... various parts of the world came to "Eggland," as the farthermost point of the island cameto be known, to see the marvellous sight, not of thousands but of hundreds of thousands of bird-eggs.A ... a bower of verdure, a home for the birds and the song of the nightingale. The grandchildren have gone to the four corners of the globe, and arenow the generation of workers-some in the far East...