Show 0 fairy tal rf a n B 0 0 BIRDS 1 I cant have everything said the flamingo fl a mingo and sa BO I 1 like beautiful feathers better than I 1 like gracefulness and beauty of shape my i t feathers are bright and pink and guy when there are a number of us around we make A beautiful sight because of our magnificent coloring my moth another er sat n r upon a nest of ant A 1 mud y with 1 her legs drawn up beneath the flamingo was tier her while I 1 also very awkward hatched out into it a handsome flamingo at least they all say bay I 1 am handsome no now w billie brownle brownie agreed that the ua ila mango was waa cert certainly allily very handsome but the flamingo v lis ulso also very awkward and kot got into the strangest of positions sit ions billie brownie ant to call cah on tile the laplatte white orane crane next he was beautiful with the most perfect of feathers and as he be walked upon lits ills thin legs and ana webbed feet there was a great deal 0 of f grace about him ills his beak was long and he reached down into the mud of the pond to see if lie he could find a nice frog or tadpole tor for supper billie brownie called upon ft pigeon who had hurt himself far away from home but who ila had traveled all the way to hla his dear little home pigeon cote eyen though it had taken him almost two weeks to make tile the trip billie was devoted to this pigeon who had suffered but who had made such valiant efforts to get to his home and billie was delighted to see him there lie Ile called on the hie vultures in the zoo but the vultures woul would d not any a word for vultures are the only birds who do not care to make any sound at all youre very unsociable billie brownie said but the vultures looked at billie brownle brownie and their eyes lo 10 looked aked m roost ost unattractive and hard he thought ile he called on the eagles next and the enges eagles told him they were very ond fond or of their food their keeper had find told old them lately of some of their relatives who lived along the pacific coast who ate so many young salmon that they could hardly fly y the engles thought that was a great joke and they said if boys and and ladles ladle and gentlemen sometimes eat so much they can hardly walk because they have not been able to resist such good foods you can tell them that the bald eagles the national birds sometimes cant resist eating too much them selves I 1 next nest billie called on another pigeon this pigeon had arrived exhausted rear near a harbor with a message tied around his 1 leg eg the message was a call for help from some stranded seamen and it was all because of the little brave pigeon who had been with tile the seamen and who had not stopped even though lie he had felt many times as though he could go no further that these men were saved billie brownie was amazed too at the modesty of the pigeon if he had saved three lives lie he thought he would be pretty i proud but the pigeon said what else r would I 1 have done of course I 1 was tired but us as long no as I 1 could possibly keep on I 1 kept on for I 1 knew what an lint irn portana message J I 1 was bringing oil oh I 1 did nothing more than 1 any pigeon would the rh asiatic A white have done it Is a crane nothing to make a fuss over baille brownie I 1 tun nin delighted to have your kind thoughts and your good wishes nud and your friendship so mille brownie went back to Brown leland and to told ld them of the birds lie he hid seen but especially he As told of the ibe brave P pigeon who was so naturally braaf that bravery ill meant nt nothing unusual to him and the bownes Brwn es vere thrilled hearing about him |