Show alk alak assy W BURGESS JENNY WREN TELLS WHO THE STRANGER IS T in longer jetel rabbit stared blared it at the stranger ranker st in the old orchard the tha more he realized how mistaken lie had been in thinking that hut he ft as 03 dresel all in black now that tha 1 peter was vias so near he could see that the stranger v was as speckled all over with tiny light spots under death he was dark bi gray rua and tall were nere the same I 1 t he Is the starling and he really an american at all 10 color with little touches of bilt baft his hid rather laige bill was yellow peter hurried back to jenny wren a and n d it must be confessed he looked sheep lih th you were right jenny wren lie black at all confessed peter of course I 1 was right I 1 usually am re jenny tie he tan t black blach he isn t even related to the blackbird family and he any business in this country anyway lies hes a foreigner what he Is 19 a fo foreigner rAgner but you haven t told mo me who he be Is protested peter ile Is the starling and he really an american at all replied jenny ile he cornea comes from across the ocean the same as cully bully the english sparrow thank good g 0 od ness he chasn t ouch a quarrelsome disposition as bully just juat the thee ame I 1 the rest of us w would be better sat isfried if he be were not here ne ile has taken possession of one of the old houses of yellow tho the flicker aud and that mears one less house fo for birds who realy belong hole if hla his family increases at the rate bulks family does docs im I 1 m afraid some of us ua will be crowded out of tile the old orchard rid did you notice that yellow bill of his peter nodded 1 I did he said ill 1 t ery ell LIMP noticing it I 1 well theres a funny liing clout about that bill replied jenny in win cpr it turns almost black mst most of us wear a colored suit in winter but our bills remain the same ue he seems so ems to be pretty well fixed here and I 1 dont see but what the thing for the rest of tile the birds to do Is to make the best of the mattei I 1 said peter I 1 what I 1 want to t know Is whether theror or not he Is of any use 1 I guess he must ie e of some good admitted jenny wren rather grudgingly ay I 1 ve seen been him pick ing up worms and grubs but HP he likes grain and I 1 have a suspicion that if his family becomes very nu berous and I 1 suspect it will they will eat more or of farmer browns grain than they will pay for by the worms and bugs they destroy hello 1 theres dandy the waxwing and tits his friends at T W burgea Burg BBB |