Show M e afi me nW burgess THE STRANGER WITH THE BEAUTIFUL COAT MI ER nev never er will forget tile first time be saw glory the sometimes called hedblad ile he had just hopped over the old orchard when a beautiful clear loud wIlli atIA drew tits eyes to the top of an apple tree with a little gasp of sheer astonishment and delight peter ieter stopped short ile he couldn coulden t quite believe that he saw what hat he saw ile he supposed N F r f 6 7 in fact she was almost as ae good a singer as tier her handsome husband that anyone even among the fiath ered folk could bo be quite so BO beautiful the stranger was its dressed all in red except a little blak black around tile the base of tits his bill alven its his bill was red ile he wore sore a beautiful redcrest red crest which nindo him still more distinguished looking and how lie he could sing 1 of course acter lost no time in hunting up jenny wren nho la Is it jenny who la Is that beautiful stranger strang cr with stich a lovely song cried ieter as soon as aa lie he caught algat of jenny I 1 glory the cut dinal replied jon jen ny ay wren promptly isa imn t he the lovelle lovel leot lt thing ou ve ever seen been if I 1 wore were mrs cardinal im afraid I 1 should be jalous there she bhe to Is in tile very same saine tree with him did you ever see flee such a difference instead of the beautiful red of glory airs cardinal wore ore it very iery dull dress tier her back was waa a brown ish gray and ami net hei throat a gray graybill lill black blach her dienst was a dull tuff with a faint tinge of rf rid d ller her wings find and tall were tinged with dull rod red hut but if she v aan t handsomely dressed she could sing in u fact she file was almost as an good a singer as tier her handsome husband 1 I 1 ve noticed sold said peter that people with one fine clothes spend most moat of their time thinking about them and are of very little use when it t comes to real work in ufa life well you think that of glory declared jenny in tier her vigorous way lies iles jut just as fine as he la Is band handsome some iles hes a model husband if they make their home around here aou ou will find him doing hla bla full share in ili the care of their babies some times tampa they raise two famines families when they do that glory takes care of the first lot of youngsters as soon boon as an they are able to leave the vest nest so that tire mrs cardinal has haq noth nothing ling to worry about while sitting on the second lot of eggs everybody IOTCH glory excuse me peter im going over to find out if really going to stay when jenny i ix turned she was waa so ao excited site she keep still a minute they irbey like it here peter I 1 she cried if they can call find a place to suit them they are going to stay my they will add a lot to the ity of this neighborhood I 1 sir ir and mrs cardinal whist whistled lel and sang eang as if their hearts were bursting with joy and peter sat around listening as if he had bad nothing elaw to do 0 r W burgess Borr lc |