A Pretty Sight. 275

 

cause he had found out that a very
small noise would frighten birds
away from him. But when the
father and mother birds had gone,
and the young ones had all cuddled
down together in the bottom of the
nest, he crept quietly away to his
sister, who was sitting on the grass
ata, little. distance, aiid said,‘ Ihe
dear little birds are calling their papa
and mamma; and then she went
back with him to get a peep.
Afterwards, they both sat down
on a mossy bank to talk about these
same dear little birds, and wonder
when they would be able to come
out of their nest and fly about, like
the parent ones. In a short time

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