Show e s h ht t t ts s SALLY SLY STY GOES GOE SPYING W Uj B Thornton Burgess I Iho only those by b nature sly Who ho ever really like Ilke to lo spy Ol Olt Ol l Mother other Nature Sally Sail Sly is an Tone None N me of O the other birds will have anything to do llo with her They look down i ion on her They consider her lazy I and sometimes she Is called the Her real re name Is Cow Cow- I bird Of ot all tho the feathered folk foils to lit there is none In iii this t country c ex ex- excepting excepting i Sally Sly J that t leaves her babies to be brought up tip by others Sally Sly is n u disgrace to the name of oC mother And all the other feathered folk tolk feel Ceel this way wa about It It So Sally Hall is an outcast and sho she doesn't seem to mind It a 0 bit bit- bithen When hen she saw Mrs Airs Irs Red eye kick that egg out of her nest I Sally decided right away that It was quite useless to try tr to leave another egg in the nest of Mrs Red Iced So Sally promptly flew over o to the Old Orchard But she took tho the greatest care to keep out of sight sl ht She was sneaKy She Just sneaked about spying on onIt x Yf f fi I i s. s II f. f J JIt It daft take her long to find several nests tho the other birds It didn't take her long Ion to find several nests neste ht away awa she found the nest of Welcome Robin but then any anyone one could find that nest It was too big All the nests sho found at first TV were pro too big ble- for tor her pur pur- pose They were the nests of t birds nearly or quite for own size le leShe She wanted the nest of birds much smaller than she Do you OU know why Sally might be too lazy to take tako care of o her own babies bables but sho she is I clever er enough to make sure that I those same babies ables get et the best b st care from front their foster parents So Sally chooses a nest of o some somo one smaller than she some one whoso whose I babies will 11 be smaller than her baby aby when they hatch She I Knows then that her baby Jah being the largest cst will be the tho strongest and will bo be sure sura to get Its Us share sharo of food As a n matter of or fact tact It gets more than its Is share of food and this Is 13 quite as DI Sally Sly SI would have it H. So Sally kept watch until she saw s- s Chippy the Chipping Sparrow c. c and Mrs around Farmer Drown Brown s barnyard barnard She aw saw Mrs Irs Chippy y fly away with a horsehair horse and she kept watch to lo sec ic-e exactly where when Mrs Irs hippy Chippy went She Knew that that horsehair was for tor forthe forthe the lining of o a nest She saw Mrs l Chippy fly Into a certain apple appletree appletree tree in tho Old Orchard She waited until mail both Mr and Mrs Chippy were back Jack at the barn barn- barnyard barnard barnyard yard ard then flew straight over ocr to that thal apple tree She flew straight to 10 the place where she had seen Mrs rs Chippy go Sure enough there was a a. little nest made of o fine roots and lined with horse horse- hair hall Sally Sail inspected it carefully That nest Is Just about fin fin- finished finished I shed said she sho to lo herself think by hy tomorrow there will be bean bean bean an egg In there I must Keep watch of this Th Then n she spied on Sunshine the Yellow Warbler Over O In a n bush bushon on at one side of the Orchard she found foun the beautiful soft nest 1 which Mrs Irs Sunshine so dearly 1 loves 10 There were four tour eggs In it Sally Sly left another and with a n wicked chuckle e sneaked out of sight The Tho next day she again visited the nest of ot Mr and Mrs Irs Chippy I i In it was a 3 little blue egg with a a. I circle of o black spot at the big end Sally Sly left another egg egg- eg I to keep It company com pan Then she sho flew over o near the Smiling Pool and there she found Cound as she had been I quite sure she would the nest of I Little Friend the Song Sparrow The next day da another of Salty Sally Sa 11 Sly'S Sty's eggs was I in that nest Then Quito quite satisfied Sally Sail went I off ort to toI I find some of her own O relatives I and do nothing all the rest of o the summer but have a good time limp if 1 But behind l her she left trouble I I She Sho had hall left more moro than trouble I for In three three homes she had left It ft the unhappiness which only self self- selfishness I r I can cause r Copyright 1925 1025 by T T. V. W. Burgess The next story t rr The Greedy Greed I I Babies Cab es u |