Show BiDd dds eve 11 iii i adi faidy ry ta tale I 1 e I 1 avry CRAHAM ap AHAM HAND TO MOUTH you know said little mr air robin I 1 that we do love to be talked to by people perhaps that Is not just the way nav I 1 should express myself in self but I 1 am sure eure yuu MU understand my meaning 11 then rhen too you ou know im not great on correct I 1 niter went to sc school hoI I 1 never carried V pad and it pencil find and a note book and a lot of other books you have to carry such things it you ou want to be wise 1 11 I suppose you ou have to do saml something else besides carrying such things if yoi want to be wise but that Is the beginning of w wisdom ril ill take your fir word for it said mrs ira robin smiling a sweet robins smile now mr air and mrs airs robin were sitting upon an arbor side by b side mr bir robla had been n singing tins the loveliest songs and mrs birs robin had been enjoying lils ids song so bo very much luell Il enow now in the white house bouse nearby said bald mr air robin the lady lad there chats with ft ath me and with you ou and with till chii other birds and it does make life fco bl pleasant and sociable cialle so she will say to me well you ou dear little robin and did you ion sing a nice song for its yes indeed you sou did youre a cu cunning little creature and your guate lb Is very er sweet eft beet then she will talk to the bird who ho does her marketing near the honeysuckle hone buckle honey market site she will say sai to the humming bird is as r she he picks loners flowers nearby now sow dont let me die frighten son dear little humming bird I 1 do that for all the w world orld 0 oil b y es we ve till all love her put but I 1 had something to say sav to you iou mis airs robin chirp Clil rp chirp yes es yes is said mrs airs robin they were sitting very ven close together r ho how and turned their little heads to look at ench each other from time to time imp then ihen again tin looked out at the lie little green lawn lava with its arbors tit at the other othar end too the white house beyond that and the little flower bed edging the side of the house 1 I heard an expression or a saying which alch I 1 thought was a very eri good one sold aid mr robin yes yes es chirp chirp said mrs airs robin 1 I heard sonic aonie ono one say that it wise lse to lle live from hand to mouth now for the longest time I 1 puzzled over oer that I 1 did not know what w mas a mea meant tit by such a saying saving or slon espres and then I 1 listened some more and from the conversations and talks that I 1 heard beard I 1 discovered what it meant tell me said mrs robin well said mr robin a creature who lives from froin hand to mouth Is a youre a cunning little creature creature who does not save up any thing for a rainy day which Is an other saying or expression est when people speak of up tor for it a rainy inan day they mean saving something for a time which so bright and prosperous and rich and all saving up something for a ra rainy iny day Is wisp wise because it keeps one from being hard up ana dependent on others when the rainy day comes of edurise course the rainy day Is just a saying ing meaning what ive explained I 1 think we robins should speak of siv sav ing up for a dry day for or we find such juicy worms in the rainy weather but it a creature who lives from hand to mouth Is a person who takis takes I 1 in the money or the worms as he can ond and eats what he has earned tit at once A person who lives front from hand to moll mouzli tit spends all lie he makes as soon as lie he makes it not only onh in food fond of nurse the expression Is tin an espres sion meaning it a good deal yo yeii ee e 11 and nd a bird who lives from froin heili to stomach Is a bird who dooen nt t think if fit the future of course wi birds cant save up fin and liine have little hank blink nc ae counts but wi we cnn ann save up tip strength ani and lie a ith f for or our ur t rael trinell ng days and we ve can to do such now good work that we can look after our little ones and brins bring them up ill to he be birong too but the expression nn fin inter one to nil ni me l I t like to be it a and live from blind imad to mouth it would bp be so trying a life and 1 I t vi want tint to be a child who didn dian t save s sonic some toward something his big and nice than spending every even thing on things to eat and which would quickly pass yes the tha expression Is a good one |