Part 12 (2/2)
”There is our White Spring!” shouted Mrs Robin ”Let us stop there a while and get some new sand for our crops!”
So Robert Robin led his fa was a tiny little spring which gushed frolen There were no houses nor other buildings near, and very few people knew that there was such a place as White Spring, but Robert Robin's father had known of it and he had led Robert Robin to its tiny basin, and Robert Robin had shown the spring to Mrs Robin
The tired robins were glad to drink of its clear cool water which gushed out of the whitest sand
”Fill your crops with this nice sharp sand, children!” said Mrs Robin
”You will need good sand in your crops to digest those Virginia bugs!”
So all the robins filled their crops with the fine white sand, then Robert Robin sat down to rest
”Do you re?” he asked Mrs Robin
”Oh, yes! Indeed I do!” said Mrs Robin ”That e were on our honeymoon!”
”There were many other robins around here then!” said Robert Robin ”Do you rehed Robert Robin
”I ht have been jealous of her, but at least I was very polite to her and was not rude like you were to that handso Mister Percival Robin, who to knock hi around like mad! Why! You chased him clear over that hill and you were si, and all because he was very polite to !”
said Mrs Robin
”Good looking?” said Robert Robin ”Good looking? Why! his head looked like a woodpecker's, and his tail looked like a chickadee's, and his legs were long enough for a killdeer!”
”That Miss Lena Robin, you were so infatuated with,----”
”Infatuated with?” screamed Robert Robin ”I barely re! She had pretty eyes, and a chared Percival is a mystery to me!”
”What he could see about her is a deeper mystery!” said Mrs Robin, ”but let us not quarrel about those people,--they are nothing to me”
”Nor to me!” said Robert Robin ”Call the children and ill be on our way!”
So Mrs Robin called the youngster robins fro I-spy, and all of theher air on their way to the wars as they followed close behind Robert Robin went ”Swish!+ Swish!+ Swish!+”
like the panting of tiny engines
THE END
THE SUNNYBROOK SERIES
By MRS ELSIE M ALEXANDER
A remarkably well told, instructive series of stories of ani incidents in their lives Young people will find these tales of anie of nature lore
THE HAPPY FAMILY OF BEECHNUT GROVE (PETER GRAY SQUIRREL AND FAMILY)