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Show BREADCRUMBS Three Is n bird known br-it by bis name of .liinro. lie Is also known as Hie Mioulilrd mill the slate-colored Hiow bird. lie wears dark feathers on bis brad while I In; upper parts of his body lire slate cnlorrd. lie wenrs a gray vest while under-nralli under-nralli be Is while. In his tall lie has beautiful while feathers that can easily bo seen when be llles. He Is quite friendly In the autumn nnd winter time with the Kpnrrows and chickadees, nnd often goes crumli-bunllng crumli-bunllng with them. Tho Jiiiico birds have qulto lovely voices. They warble and trill nnd slug very swertly, but ubove all they have happy dispositions. One day Mr. Junro, his wife, and several of their children were sitting mi u fence when Mr. Sparrow came along. "Good-day, Cousin," said the Sparrow, Spar-row, for the Junro and Sparrow ure cousins. "Would you like to come und look for crinubH with us? "We think there should be some at that bouse over yonder. We see a little girl throwing something out of tlio window. I think It must be a plate of crumbs." "Thank you so much," said Mr. Jiiiico sweetly, "we would love to come with you. "U hat a nice day this Is! Crisp und cold but not too bitterly cold." Mr. Junco talked nnd chirped In 1 .'A's , ,' u,, - l -i'tV-U'd- - i ' . i w --rt- ( S?H'V1 .e:t t.-.,rt,F&' i -I Think It Must Be a Plats of Crun-.bc." tl.is pleasant manner as he flew along, and Mrs. Junco talked to Mrs. Sparrow. Spar-row. Put they had not gone far when the Sparrow children began to ipiarrrl, but It was bard for them to fight with the Junco children as they were so gentle nnd nice. Nor could the grown-up sparrows quarrel with the grown-up Juncos for they were so gentle and good-natured good-natured nnd sweet too. Well, they all had a fine meal of breadcrumbs, and luter on when Mr. Junco was talking about It with Mrs. Junco he said, "It doesn't take much time or trouble trou-ble for people to keep us supplied with breadcrumbs when we stay around all winter and try to give them cheer. "Oh, let us hopx that more and more people will give brendcrunibs to the birds who stay around In the winter win-ter time. "Then the birds know that they are wanted and that they are appreciated, nnd they feel that they are welcomed." "Yes," said Mrs. Junco, "it Isn't much to do, but it Is very much appreciated ap-preciated by the birds." |