Show II J r 1 A QUEER FAMILY FAMILY- By Thornton W. W Burgess Burgen When hen explanation makes U tt t clear A thing though odd Is 15 never queer Old Mother Nature l' Farmer Browns Brown's Bo Boy the barn jam and walked straight over o to Winsome Bluebirds Bluebird's house i 11 i the dooryard Winsome had Just ar arrived ai- ai arrived rived with a dragonfly farmer armer Browns Brown's Boy Boy called it It a darning needle Two little heads heals were were bobbing about just Inside each eliCh eager for th that t dragon Winsome Win Vin- some Bluebird l went w nt inside with it ItIn In n a moment momen he h came n oli nit it flew away awa Then one of If those th so little heads popped o op p d out for a Ie c around It looked just as u the head lead of a young Bluebird should look There must be something sorn wrong with Darts Dart's eyes said Far Far- Farmer r r- r mer user Browns Brown's Boy to lo himself Perhaps It was vat the way th Mm- Mm light fell on the tho birtt that made him bins think that they were white He lIe turned to call t. t to o Farmer Brown Drown who also v. v ho was WIS standing in In the lIle doorway to tho barn here s nothing white about these t birds he be called Is r that so Son said Farmer Brown Drown Well non non- no w thy th y look lo k white to me If IC that head look look- tog lug down at you jou ou isn't bib then th n nI I dont don't know white when I see s t It i Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy turned to I look back up-at up the little round roun doorway Ills His mouth fell open and he lie was as the picture of foolishness A little head as as' as white as the whitest snow was in that door door- door door- way Not only was the head white but the eyes were erd pink In iii fact they were almost ri r red d Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy rubbed his hl hi own ees eyes ejes and looked again And Andas Andas as he looked under the white whitehead whitehead head lead another white head appear appear- appeared ed in the doorway How Heir about it Son called Far Far- Farmer Farmer mer user Brown Drown Farmer Fanner Browns Brown's Boy Doy J d to look back at Farmer Furner Drown Brown l I he he began be t thep turned turn d ind nd once more more looked l ked up at Win Win- Winsome's somes some's home There were wre heads in the doorway but neith neither er of of them was white Tb y were werA the heads h ads of or jul just ordinary young joung Bluebirds You ought to t havo seen the face of f Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy then then It was vas as funny Yes sir it I was was funny He H started for the as as fast as he could run In a moment or two to he was back with v. a a stepladder Ho lie climbed up to that tEat ii at little house of Winsome's and opened it It H. In It ere five fIe young joung birds Ir s. s Three were pure white and two were dressed just as young joung Bluebirds are dressed dr se Whence When those saw three white e Bluebirds Farmer Fa n Browns Brown's Boy CoY didn't know what to tosa say saX sa Of at cpU he h knew k ew right away what it meant He lie He knew new I Its a queer family he kept saying over and over to right away that gway-that that these were what are called albinos He had seen seena a white Robin Robn He knew that every once In a awhile while a a. ld or animal was was all all white But to find three white Bluebirds in one one nest nest was an unheard of or experience e But Iut there tb they y were Certainly it was wasa vJ s a 30 queer family Farmer Browns Brown's Boy Doy climbed down d wn nd took the stepladder away away Winsome and Mrs Win Win- Winsome Winsome some s l e had had been be n 1 about 9 anxiously Each had had a JJ a dr dragon dragon- dragonfly l on fly Ily for r Or r the thc babies I I I wonder what they think about them I wonder If they think the they are areu ae queer thought Farmer armer Browns Brown's DroWns Boy Boj As a matter of fact Winsome I and Mrs Winsome did think that thee he babies were queer They didn't know what to make of them at atall all At first Winsome had In isted I ted that these queer queer white chil c children dren were not their their- children at atall atall all aU Somebody d eggs with you jou ou he be Insisted to o Mrs Win Win- Winsome some someNo someNo No No such thing declared Mrs Winsome Nobody could fool me I Iab about ab abb t my ray my own eggs These are are our babies all ill right even eyen if they are aie queer And Just because they are are queer well have to take al aU althe the better care of them Winsome Bluebird still looked looke doubtful d u trul but he went on about abou ab ut his duty of finding food for those hungry little mouths Its a queer q eer family he kept saying s over and over to himself its it's a queer quer que r family I never had hada a a aque queer que r fain fain- fain fain- before and I dont dont don't understand und it It Its It's a queer family Copyright 1927 by T. T T W W. Bur Dur Burgess gess g ss The T next n x story storn Out in ln the Grat q at I |