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Show "Wake Us Up at Morn." wings little baskets filled with moss and filled with tiny worni3 for the birds' breakfasts. "Oh, t-w-I-t, twit, trill, t-r I-l-I, twit," said the birds, gayiy. They began at once to eat their delicious de-licious breakfasts. "We're to have a concert," said tho Fairies, "for soon, soon you will be going up North again. "Now you are with us where It is warm In the winter time and we want to take advantage of that, and have some glorious music." "But won't you come and visit us even when we go North?" the birds asked. "Indeed we will," said the Dawn Fairies, "but we had to have some excuse for having a concert this morning we felt so much like one and we thought this excuse- as good as any." The birds chirped and trilled. They liked the Idea of a concert too, and were so glad the Dawn Fairies felt as they did about one. "We are flattered," the birds said. Some of them made bows, and others oth-ers hopped around nnd around the Dawn Fairies, singing, The Fairies of the Dawn. Who wake us up at morn. Make us happy, free and gny. Hurrah, oh, hurrah I The Fairies laughed at the little verse the birds sang, and then they took reserved seats on the best branches of the low trees nearby. "The concert stand will be the bush which holds' the dewdrops," said the Queen of the Dawn Fairies. All the birds took their place on the bush from where they sang solos, ducts. In chorus, and in groups of six nnd eight The Dawn Fairies were delighted nnd Just before the concert was over they gave the birds acorn cups filled with rare flower honey. It was a most successful concert |