Show das laerm e ro adi fairy ry ta tale I 1 e B HAND TO MOU MOUTH H you know said little mr robin that flint we it do 0 love to be t talked 11 aked to til by br people perhaps that Is not just the way I 1 should express myself but I 1 am sure you understand roy my meaning then rhen too you know im not great on correct speech I 1 never went to s school e hool I 1 never neer carried a pad and a pencil and a note book and a lot of other books you have to carry such things it if you want to bo be wise 1 I suppose you have to do something else bes besides des carrying such things if you want to be wise but that ilithe Is the beginning of wisdom 1 ill ri take your word for or it said bald mrs robin smiling a sweet robins ro blits smile now mr and mrs were sitting upon an arbor side by side mr robin had been singing tile tho loveliest songs and mrs robin had been enjoying ills his song to so very much now noll in ehg white house nearby so said id mr robin the lady there chats chat with tit me a and nd with you and with thu tho other aber birds and it does make life if pleasant and socially cialle so she will say to me 11 well you dear little robin and did you slag sing a nice song for us ua yes indeed you did youre a cunning little creature and your our mite mate to Is very sweet then she will talk to the humming bird who does doe 4 her marketing near the honeysuckle honey tu market arket site she will say eay to tile the humming lium ming bird aishe os she picks letters flowers nearby now dont doat let mo me frighten you dew dear little ittle humming bumming bird I 1 do that for all tho the world oh yes we all love her but 1 hild something to say ay to you mrs robin chirp chirp yea yes said mrs robin I 1 they were sitting vry very close together now and turned their little heads beads to look at each other from time to time then again alrey looked out at the little green lawn with its arbors at the other end too tite the white house beyond that and tho the little flower Power bed edging the side ot of the house 1 I heard beard an expression or a saying sayin I 1 thought was wasa a very good one sald said mr air yes es yes chirp chirp said mrs robin 1 I heard some SOITO one say that it wise to live from hand to mouth now for tho the longest time aimel I 1 puzzled over that I 1 did not know what was meant by such it a saying or express loW and then I 1 listened some more and from the and talks that I 1 lenrol I 1 discovered what it meant tell me sold said mrs robin well said mr robin a creature who lives from band to mouth la is it a fa youre a cunning little creature 11 creature who doto dote not save up any tiling thing for a mality day which Is another saying or expression when people speak of saving up for it 11 rainy daify they mean saving something for a time which so bright aind prosperous and rich and and all saving up something for bor a rainy day Is alse because it keeps one ones from being hard bard up nna ana dependent an on others when the rainy day corner comm of course course tile tho rainy day Is just a saying meaning what ive explained I 1 think we robins should speak of saving up for a dry tiny for we find such juicy worms in the rainy weather but a creature creatura mho lives froni from hand bond to mouth Is a u person who takes in the money or the worms as ile he can and eats what lie he has ban earned lit at once A person who lives front from hand to mouth spends oil all tie lie makes as soon as lie he makes it not only in food of course the expression Is an expression meaning a good deal you acil see and a bird who lives front from beak to stomach Is it bird who think of the future of course we birds cant saw save up and have little bunk bank ne nc counts hut but we can save up strength and health for our traveling travel it g days and we can to do such good work that diat we con can look after our mr little ones and bring them up tip to he be strong too lo 10 put fut the expression seems on interesting one to mp in I 1 tike like to be a person and live from hand band to mouth it would he be so trying n ali e and I 1 want to be n child who sava some nine toward something big and nice rather than spending everything on thing to aiu e a t and oln tiliga gs which would qu pass yes the expression Is a good one |