Show MARY AI GRAHAM B BO NEP SERGEANT STARLING SPEAKS SPEAK now starling sisters anti and brothers and cousins listen to what I 1 have to suy say suld sergeant starling general sparrow told tits family tit alie other day to be sure sura that they let us get ahead abend of them they nicy want to be the worst moral fighters and the worst birds but till ah llie ruing going to bo be second worst tor for nil all of thul that we will get the better of them in tile the long run we always brive sergeant starling closed tits his long yellow bill gave it tuny fully jerk to ills his short till and raised his long black and g green een wings were better looking than they are arc lie he continued we have pur purples tiles and green in our glossy black feathers fen aud and our ladles wear white spots as it their ae r ow own n fashion and were it good deal larger than they are we too will eat cat anything we wilt will stand any climate little starlings pop out of tile the eggs in sixes and sevens every four or five months that Is splendid for it means that so many little starlings are constantly coming into the world some people say they cannot make up their minds whet whether tier we do more harm than good god and when I 1 say some people I 1 mean people who a study nf birds there are people who make a study of birds who talk about birds and lecture about birds and who know all we do they watch us and find us interesting 1 I dont blame them tit in the least I 1 should think people would like to study birds anti and how we nest and how J along rushed fire chief calaf starling nu we net act and what we eat cat and how we chirp or slug sing and what we do in the winter time 11 there are so many different kinds of birds and we do such different things it Is as interesting in the bird family ns BS it Is among people there are lots of different sorts who do different things in different ways As ive said these people who know all about birds made up their minds whether were vere of wore more use to them thein or of more harm harin to them thein in the work we do I 1 mean I 1 suppose they will decide it for or themselves one of these days but in the meantime weve plenty to do in seeing that we run matters in our own way A great help to us la is the fact that there are so many of us W with tit all the little starlings coming out of the eggs we train them to be good starling children und and there are huge bug col colonies of starlings almost everywhere now just think I 1 six little starlings at a titue time and too the mother starlings watch over three broods a year or at the least two people have not decided whether they like us or not as ive ie told you but no matter were a clever lot we c can n whistle so bo that we WB sound like people and turn around to see who was whistling how flow that does make us laugh I 1 and then tsiun we gurgle and they wonder what sort of it 11 sound that la 14 we warble Ai irble too were beinart Ser sergeant gentit starling Starl lm raised ills his head high so with fill our cleverness and our fine powers of winning aidy u good scrap if were given a long enough time we will yin win over the sparrows and it if were not given a lung long enough time we can always take a lung long enough time As tile the sergeant was talking along rushed fire chief starling ile he had been BO name named because ne had always said that should there be it a ire fire lie he would remember that lie he was the chief one to be saved Starl starlings lup lie he cried the sparrows who built their nest under one of the eaves of a house had find an accident to their nest they had all left the nest some tittle lime before but it had become very dry and a spark front from a bonfire below went up and caught tire and almost inide a big tire ore in the peoples people house said sergeant Sergen nt starling you bring important news fire chief we must build a nest under tinder Bonie sonie eaves and then leave it to dry so it may some borne day help start a fire let lct us not allow the sparrows to get ahead of is the starlings nil all shouted let tm in take from them their right to oa t of being the worst the second worst fur for |