Part 6 (1/2)
Gabriel Chipmunk's pockets were in his cheeks, and when he had both pockets full of cherry pits, his head looked larger than all the rest of hih the woods ”Who on earth is that?” said Billy Rabbit to hi around without anybody! Help! Help!” and Billy Rabbit ran home and told Mrs
Rabbit that he had just seen a terrible head running through the woods
When Gabriel Chipot horanary bins, and called Mrs Chipmunk to come and help him, and both of them worked as fast as they could and in a very short ti basswood tree were safe and snug in Mister Gabriel Chipranary under his old home stump
Both of them were so tired that they went to bed and slept until the next ht Mister Robert Robin perched on the top of his big basswood and sang his ”Cherry Song,” and while he was singing he heard soh the woods It was the faret some of the cherry pits to plant in a box
He scuffed his feet a the leaves, and looked, and looked, but he could not find even just one cherry pit
”Where did all those cherry pits go?” he asked himself ”There was forty-'leven hundred of 'em here this forenoon, and now they are as scarce as hen's teeth! Some bird must have picked up every last one of them! I wouldn't have cared, only I was so sure about their bein' cherry pits, and the farument--but now I'll never hear the last of fryin' them mittens”
The hiredto Robert Robin's cherry song
”Cherry sweeter!
Cherry sweeter!
Cherry sweet!
Cherry sweet!
Call Peter-- Call Peter!
Call Pete, Call Pete!
Cherry sweet!
Cherry sweeter!
Cherry sweet!”
”That robin is a fine singer, and he is singing about cherries all right!” said the hired man, ”and if I knew as much as he does about what becaht to 'em, this minute!”
CHAPTER VI
MISTER ROBIN DECIDES TO TAKE A VACATION
The days sped by, and the baby robins grew so fast that very soon the four filled the nest chock-full, and so one day Robert Robin was notup in the nest
”Sit down at once, children!” he said ”You hten your mother!”
But the next day little Sheldon hopped out of the nest and stood beside it, and Elizabeth insisted upon standing so near the edge of the nest that Mrs Robin was very nervous for fear she would upset the nest and spill Montgoround
”Do sit down, child!” said Robert Robin ”Your mother does not like to have you stand up in the nest that way!” But Elizabeth gave a great ju her wings, and getting ready to fly Then little Sheldon gave a great jump and flew clear into the maple tree Mrs Robin was veryloudly, and Robert Robin was saying, ”Tut! Tut!” and jerking his tail up and down
Suddenly Evelina stood up and ju over and over down the side of the tall basswood tree, spilling little Montgomery, heels over head