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Now. children. we are going on s ,.Vll7 Important visit this morning .aad 1 want you to be sure to do ex- . what you are told." Chirrup- ..Od rs. Robin Redbresst to her tour youngsters.

"at. we will. we will." they chorusad together. ”But where are we going?"

"Just wait and you'll find out,” was all their mother would say.

This was the robin family who had lived in the snug nest high onl the electic light pole near Lau- rie's house. There the baby robins -.hsd hatched from the pale blue

ot worms and bugs to ieed them, gllow isst they had grown! They were only three months old, yct theiribodles were almost as big as those of their parents. They

ther and iather yet. were still short. hnd their breasts were a very light reddish brown, all freckled with dark spots. .

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cats and people are your enentics. Robin as she led the flew from their perch

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The wise will always be discreet - Provide a place ior sale retreat.

That is one of the iirst and most important lessons the Green.

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lace whee he had s nt the nightl ;'here on a big list Ilietone he tooklnound home. when he could 'n ya sun bath. He even napviledi Hclssie place to stay near that garden. mom Mower Nmurt was awakened by angry voices. Theljqe found nothing Mu” nun mu owner oi that garden and his boy hole among the non" of an old lhad discovered thek mischiiai that wan, That woumn-3, do,” he 1903. . , . . young chuck had un nowins y done. ed ior a ood lace in which to eggs. and there the busy fsther,:'(:5?L1e;:,1S 3;:1l)thh:;a(::.:'5t?r1::lHe slipped out or eight down in dig, The lnext pmomlng alter a

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Monday. August 9. 1954 no one was nsu'."rhen be all?- Ped back to that garden ior more oi those delicious plants.

It was while he was atuiiing llllne seli. mucking his Mpg avg; mg Rood taste oi those bean plants. that he decided he had iound the place where he wanted to make his new home. 1! he couldn't iind a good underground house ready made he would live in the old wall while he dug blmselt s new under-

no more he went hunting ior a

none so brave, none so small, none. so big, that he does not need a sale retreat. a place wherein he

er has need of such a place. Young Buster Chuck. son oi

Johnny and Polly Chuck. had need

oi such it place now. He tins out

in a strange place. The only place in which he could feel reasonably

wayi She sale was in among the stones or

tree ight under the old nest iniun Md wall 9” I” Imm ll garden' the hrgm posh From more she and he didnt,ieel too safe thgre. tlitted across to the lilac. with her There was only one way of getting

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family closr Wehind her. Aheadw hidden in th iark green leaves of a nearby tree. Father Robinl chirruped to them. ”Comc along, come along."

With hal)DY chlrps and twitters the iamily made it safely to the tree where Mr. Robin sat.

"Just see what we have here." he sang to them. "Look. children: red, juicy cherries. They are so. very very good. Just try one andl find out for yourself.” ;

Mrs. Robin reached up to pick off a very very red qcrry. She held the stem in her mouth. then placed the cherry at her ieet. With one claw she held it while she picked off the red fleshy part and left the stone that is in the centre of each cherry. Even roblns know that the stone is not good to eat.

Robbie. the sauciest of the robin family. was eager for a task. He lhoppped up to a higher limb and helped hmself. Ruby, Rusty. and Reddle. the other three robin, youngsters. got busy too. For they next few moments they were all too busy eating to talk or even squabble among themselves.

"My goodness. Janice. look at those robins out ther in the cherry tree!" exclaimed M s. Brent. "Run nut: and chase them away. or there won't be any cherries left for pies."

Janice ran out and over to the tree. "Shoo. shoe!" she shouted, waving her arms in the air.

Father Robin merely hopped higher in the tree. He had eaten cherries from this very tree ior the last four years now. and he had learned that the most the peo- ple would do would be to shout at him and wave their arms. He hid unong I. thick bunch of leaves and kept perfectly still.

en Mrs. Robin heard the shouting she chirped. "Fly away children fly away." for it was her Job to teach them how to escape

lsuch as he never before had seen

in and out. Supposing he should be chased in there by an enemy? Then he would have no way oi getting out it that enemy should wait outside ior him or, worse still, follow him in. It had done all right for one night. and that was all that he had expected to stay in the neighborhood. You see he was traveling. hunting ior a new home where there was plenty at good food and no other chucks to tight with over it. ,

He had slept well and at day- light had started out to look ior breakiast. When he had had that he would go on his way. There was plenty of good grass at hand” but he wanted sweet clover and” wandered this way and that way looking ior it. So at last he came to a garden.

He didn't know it was a garden. He knew nothing about gardens. He never had seen a garden be- iore. To him it was just a place vdiere many and strange plants

were growing. He wandered in among these and began tasting, a bite here. a hip there. some or these green things he didn't much care ior. Then he came to a long row of tender young plants the leaves of which were even bet- ter than sweet clover. They were just about the best green things he ever had tasted. He ate and ate right along that row. eating those plants oii right down to the ground. Mmmm. how good they were! They were bean plants.

When he could eat no more he went back to the wall near the

wings go right for him.

Poor Robbie! Th e r e be was crouched down in the long izrass beneath the tree, with the cherry

danger. They obeyed at once but Robbie waited to snatch one last cherry. It was a bit out of his reach and he lost his balance. Down he fluttered? through the limbs. trying to catch hlmseli. but he could not stop. You see. he had just been learning to fly. and when he got

lstill in his beak. His brothers and lsisters had reached saiety high in ;the lilac tree. but what would hap- 'pon to him? He chirped for help, ;but no one came. Where were his isther and mother? "Chirp. chirp. scree-2-help. help." the twittered and called.

excited. he could not make his

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