Show Burgess BEDTIME IE STORIES TilE THE EXCITED YOUNG BLUEBIRDS By THORNTON W W. BURGESS The truth of this Is plain to see Effect without a cause cant can't be Old Old Mother Nature The young Bluebird who was taking a bath In a dish of water near the clothesline of Farmer Browns Brown's door- door dooryard dooryard yard rard gave a final splash and flew Hew up besIde his brother and nod sister on the clothes line Ills brother and sister who were all In white gave ga startled little cries and flew off a few feet You see they were completely upset This sounded rounded like their brother when he spoke but he certainly didn't look like ike their brother He was dressed all allIn allIn In h blue Not only was he blue on jack back and wings as were his father lather and mother but his breast was blue In fact he was blue all o er and his eyes were pink Had It not been for those hose pink eyes I fear that even en then the two little folks In white would have lave refused to believe that this was their heir brother cs r 7 fo J v I f 1 What Shat Is the matter with you he demanded crossly What Is the matter with you jou ou he demanded crossly Nothing Is the matter with us us replied his sister The matter is with you What have you jou ou been doing to yourself Nothing replied the young Blue Blue- Bluebird Bluebird Bluebird bird promptly Ive e taken a bath that's all ell But youve you've changed your coat cried his sister I haven't done anything of the sort retorted her brother You have tool retorted she You are all blue and before you went Into that water you were all white while Dont talk nonsense said aId he sharply Im as white hite as I ever er was Then he bent his head and looked looke d down at his breast and he was so sur sur- surprised surprised surprised that he almost let go of the clothes line Yes sir he almost let go goof goof g a of the clothes line He lie spread out a awing wing and drew it around in front o of f him Every Ever feather of f It was blue He stared at it with his mouth wide open the funniest looking Bluebird d you ever er saw He was still very wet wetHe wetHe He shook himself hard Some little e drops of water flew lew from him and on one e of them landed on his sister It made a little t blue spot Its that f am water water I I he h cried e It It must be m magic glo J water Why dont don't you ou take a bath In n It tt and become blue too No sooner were the words out of his mouth than his sister was over to that dish of water and in It Then his white brother Joined her How they dipped and ducked and spattered I You never saw such excited birds When at nt last they had to stop for breath they hey were no longer white Bluebirds They were blue Bluebirds They were the he the bluest kind of Bluebirds You should have seen them sit around and admire each other I wonder If it it will come off when we get dry said aId one The one who had taken the bath first was already quite dry The blue blu hadn't come off oft It was perhaps a lit little lit lit- little little tle lighter but It hadn't come off oft Just to make sure that they were blue enough they all took another dip Meanwhile the other two young Blue- Blue Bluebirds Bluebirds birds who had been the first to bathe bath had gone to look for something to cat eat They hadn't seen what was go gong g go- go going Ing ng on So when hen the three young Bluebirds who had been white went over to Join them they were received as strangers In fact the two young youn Bluebirds would have nothing to do with them and nothing that the three young Bluebirds who had been white could say made any difference dl ference All right for you jou OU said one one Where are your two white bi brothers others and your white sister But this the two tro young Bluebirds couldn't say sn They looked every every- everywhere everywhere where here but they could see no one dressed in white It was all very perplexing per per- perplexing perplexing and very puzzling punting But they didn't Intend to have an anything thing to do with these strangers No sir they Just wouldn't So it was that when Winsome Bluebird came hurrying up with a choice mosel mood for one of his children he discovered two of his children and three strangers In blue engaged in a lively ely quarrel Copyright 1927 T T. W Burgess Burge S. S The next story Winsome Searches in Vain |