Show STORY d RY THORNTON W 1 A LESSON IN politeness A FLOCK ot of modestly dressed yet rather distinguished looking sa folks alighted in a cherr tree and began helping themselves to farmer Far river browns cherries they were about the fize of winsome bluebird but lid not look in the least lla ll a him for they were A ere dressed almost wholly in a beautiful rich soft grayish brown across the end of each tall was a brigit yellow bond band on each the for fordie elieud coin end and a line through each eye was velvety black kach each wore a very polin pointed ted cap and on the aings of most of them we e little spots of red which looked like sea seal ing wax from this fiey get the name maine of they were ealm and trim and quite dandified and in a quiet vay vera mere really beautiful it if they stay long farmer brown wont vont have any cherries left remarked min irked peter dont worry replied jenny wren I 1 dont know anybody equal to them for roaming about LI II re are most of us with families while those gadabouts gad haven t even begun thinking about housekeeping yet yel they certainly do like those cherries but I 1 guess former farmer brown can stand stan the loss of what they eat lie ile may have feer cherries but hell have bave more apples because of them I 1 hows allows that demanded peter oh replied jenny they were over here a while ago when those little green canker worms threat ened to pat eat up tip the whole orchard and they stuffed themselves theras elrea on those thosa worms just the ime sime s as they tire are stuffing themselves on cherries k N 0 they were about the size of win sons bluebird but did not look in the tha least like him now they are very fond of small fruits but most moat of those they cat are the v lid kind which are of no use to firmer brown or to ana an j body else they eat so many cedar her ries that some borne folls folks call them cedar birds others call them cherry birds now just look at that pet performance firmance for mance will you youl P there yere were five of the and they m were ore seated side alde by side or a branch of the cherry tree one of them had a plump cherry which hb passed to the next one this one passed it on to the next and so it went to the end of the row and half hair way back before it was as finally eatn peter laughed right out nt ver in my life hane hae I 1 seen such each politeness sald said he I 1 exclaimed anny wren 1 11 I dont believe it wa wot politeness at all I 1 guess it if you got at the truth of the matter you yon would and each one was stuffed so full that he thought he be have ave room for that cherry nod find so BO passed it along well I 1 think that was nas politeness just we me same retorted peter the first one might have dropped the cherry instead of passing it along just then the lew few away a p T W durgen service |