274 A Pretty Sight.

 

all with open beaks, while just out-
side this Mest, OM OMe Side, was-a
fourth little chirper, who seemed to
be rather bolder than his brothers
and sisters; and on the other side,
on another bough, watching them
all, was the mother bird, looking as
if she were very pleased to see that
the father had brought them some-
thing to eat. Then the father bird
hovered over them all, and put
something into their tiny beaks, after
which he talked a little in his way,
and off he went, and the mother,
too, to see what other good things
they could find.

Johnny stood on tip-toe to watch,
and he kept as quiet as a mouse, be-