Show S o BLANCHE Sll THE POOn WlM FAMILY i Ono One evening evening- in tho the spring Just after alter tho the sun had slipped behind tho the purple hills Doris Boris heard a a. dear little bird bind bIrdI I singing Hinging In tho the tree tops Well lell of all things laughed Doris That little fellows fellow's out late Hed He'd better better better bet bet- ter go so homo to his mamma before it gets gota dark Darkness wont won't frighten that little songster lau laughed a a. merry mern voice and Doris turned around to flee eee her little Elfin friend 8 ai J hor I I al 0 1 L' L a- a 0 I 0 1 1 l J Why hy Sure hurc Enough For to Master your jour night Is day Oh exclaimed Doris Dori shaking the little 1 Elfin's hand Is that Mr r. r poor will poor Ip will Whip poor will Whip poor came the plaintive notes of or the little litho singer Why Rhy sure suro enough h It Is Je Master taster exclaimed d Doris DorSs raised upon his tiptoes and I I r answered Mr tr Whippoorwills Whippoorwill's call and andin andin I in a a. few minutes Mr r himself flow flew down beside I Doris Dorl oris and Ho wore a little reddish brown n h gray gray- ish black suit splotched with dusty white Across the upper part of or his hla breast ho he wore a narrow narro- white band and the ends of or his tail tall quills and under sides Bides were wert white Numerous bristles bristles bristles bris bris- fringed his funny Cunny bl big mouth Well Foil Whippoorwill how hov are aro you ou and your good wife asked shaking his friends friend's claw and introducing In ing Doris Its been a a. long loner time timo since Ice Ive seen Geon either olther of you So it Jt has laughed Master astor Whip Whip- And your our friend Doris r Ive I've never ne seen Been her before Guess youre you're generally In bed bed when wo we fly fir around So says sas because your our day dayla dayis la is our night laughed Doris I guess g that's tho the reason Ive I've never seen you before But Io 1 often heard your OUr I song I Yes and Id I'd better hurr hurry back tomy to toI tomy m my wife Ic or shell she'll wonder wh why I stopped my song laughed Whippoorwill Wont ont you jou OU and ee come along homo home with me Mamma Iamma Whippoorwill was glad to see them and let Doris peck peek at tho the two spotted d hab baby birds nestling nestling- under her wing on tho the ground on a pile of ot brown leaves Its Hs a Won wonder r you'd oud come to visit us pis laughed Mamma amma Whippoorwill for lor Ive I've heard It Jt said some folks think were hero ers of or bad luck Not ot me laughed Doris I r like Uke to hear your OUr plaintive e song Ive I've heard grandpa 81 say man many times when he heard your our song song In the tho early earb spring hat wed we'd have no more frosts And h hd d b be so sure of It that hed he'd begin his planting right awa away that funny funn chirped Mr rr Folks Folio aro are so strange They have ha some queer notions about their bird neighbors Now I cant can't see your our grandpa gets that Idea at atall a. a all 11 Perhaps because you OU fellows s never como come back this way un until youre you're sure of warm arm weather cather And you OU always leavo leave us before the tho first frost in the fall taU There wac was a a. rustle amon among the the- leaves lea and Mamma and Dadd Daddy without waiting to see the cause each gathered a baby up in their beaks and sailed away ta Well laughed Doris as she watched them fly to safety not vcr very neat housekeepers but they're thoro fond parents Ive I've never ne seen a a. bird carrying Its young that way ay before But when hen Doris turned around she aho found herself alone had dis dis- appeared |