Part 9 (1/2)
A tired-looking robin hopped to the end of a twig and answered: ”Well!
Well! If there isn't et back hohbors!”
”Why! It is Robert Robin!” exclaiht that you were away on your vacation!”
”We have been, and we have returned!” said Robert Robin
”You made a short stay of it!” said Ji!”
”Can that be possible?” said Robert Robin ”It seems to me that ere away a week! But the very best part of a vacation is the getting back!”
said Robert Robin, and Jim Crow said:
”It was very quiet around the woods while you were away There was no one to sing us a Hurry-up song in thein the afternoon, and no one to sing us a Good-night song when the red sun was sinking behind the purple hill Mrs Crow has had the blues all day, Billy Rabbit has been very lonely, and even Melancthon coon was asking what had beco I came over here just on purpose to listen to little Mister Bob-o-link sing his Spingle, Spangle song So you see, Mister Robin, we all need you to cheer us up with your songs and keep us good-natured!”
”Thank you very much, Mister Crow!” said Robert Robin, ”I will surely reoes down behind the hill!”
And that evening, when the red sun was sinking behind the purple hill, and the sky of the as hung with the tapestry of clouds, and the shadows in the valley were soft as black velvet, and the breath of the as like a whisper a:
”Mellow light!
Mellow light!
Yellow light!
Yellow light!
Has gone!
Has gone!
Let us rest,-- Let us rest!
'Til dawn,--'til dawn!”
Then Mister Robert Robin fluttered down into his own big basswood tree, and he and all of his faht, and not even Mister Screech-owl and his whistle disturbed them
CHAPTER VIII
ROBERT ROBIN TELLS THE STORY OF WINTER
It ell towards Fall when Mister and Mrs Robert Robin's second faetting shorter and the nights see to Robert Robin, who kept the sharpest watch to see the first faint light of dawn in the east For Robert Robin felt it his duty to waken everybody just as quickly as he was sure thatwas about to break But as the sun ca, Robert Robin had longer and longer to wait
”It seeht that we have had this suht will not be as long!” said Mrs Robin
”Perhaps not!” said Robert Robin, ”but if to-night is any longer than last night, I aether and tell them about the Great White Bear and the Little Gray Mouse!”
That afternoon the clouds covered the sky, and towards night a fine misty rain fell, so that the afternoon was dark, and it see before ti dark here in thea fog covered all the land, and Robert Robin had good reason to think that the night was far too long