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A CLEVER YOUNG COUPLE.

 

      

Al ae Core

- HEY were a pair of year-old rooks, newly married ;
UES py and, like some other conceited young folks, they
te =2) thought themselves very clever. When nesting
time came, they even went so far as to offer advice
to the old rooks on the best methods of laying twigs!
However, they were only snubbed for their pains,
and told to hold their beaks. This offended our young
friend Sambo so much that he and his clever wife left the
rookery altogether, and built for =

themselves a delightful little home |
in a large elm, where their only
neighbours were a pair of magpies.
The magpies seemed disposed to be
friendly, and Mr. and Mrs. Sambo
felt highly flattered when their new
friends declared they had
constructed the most wonder-
ful nest ever seen. Their
relatives came once to urge
them to return to the rookery; @
but they gave their visitors —
such pert answers that they
soon flew home again.

In course of time, five eggs
were laid in the wonderful
nest ; and one evening the two birds
went off for a last flight together
before Mrs. Sambo should settle if
down to her long turn of motherly (GAVE THEIR VISITORS PERT ANSWERS.”

   
 
 

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