Show evening even ing fairy tale for the children by MARY GRAHAM BONNER sir bir bird was sitting ou on the hie limb of 0 a tree in the tar far off country where ahert he live along walked airs lovely pird who had been so named because slip she was so beautiful and so lovely I 1 good morning said mrs lovely bird politely good morning suld suid mr bird ca calmly linly just then mrs airs ond and the children joined mr on the branch of 0 the tree and sat looking tit at sirs mrs lovely bird they alny looked far from intelligent and they seem to notice what bat a lovely bird she was wont you tell me something of your lifes history asked mrs love lov ly bird what do you want to know asked vr mr well said anid mrs lovely bird ive heard card it said that you sing ng 1 quite true said mr IIo atrin me e cant so much as warble marble indeed that sad said mrs lovely bird very sympathetically 1 I dont see why it 11 is sad we dont care are whether we know how to sing or not nol it makes not a particle of differ ence hut but ive also heard it salt said that eliat you could hardly hy fly at all said mrs lovely bird we cant were really hardly birds at all but somehow they called us birds years and years ago because they think or of anything else to call us just then mr climbed to another limb and he used his claws neck k and nd wings whigs to get along nal how queerly you do move said mrs lovely blid you really creep like a snake did they ever think of calling you a snake yer they thought of it I 1 believe but then were not like the snakes because cau 4 me HC cannot really crawl at all now some of the people who were calling or giving us u a family name 17 mr hoatzin climbed to another limb we should have been called monkeys we have a good many of the hie kiib ibi its of the monkey family put hut then we have no sense 0 of humor amor and they said that monkeys monkey I 1 h had a d so an they thought that name W d nt do 1 I dont see sea any sense in b bring I 1 funny anyway neither do I 1 said sald mrs 11 ti who looked more stupid i than ll 11 an I 1 her ter milte male ive alio heart earil li said mrs lovely bird your family were very hard hearted it has been sald said that a member of your family con cougil be shot down while sitting along alone side you on tile llie limb of a tree and that the rest of you wo would u id not mind at all true said gaid sir air etera ere not basting nasting buy any of our time being fond or of anyone strange strange creatures said aid mrs lowly bird and why do you live in ID those trees covered with willi thorns they look so uncomfortable oh no said mr we dont mind them we have our nests and we are quite nuite contented nothing bothers us nothing makes us ul particularly happy or sat sad or guy or glo gloomy orny strange stran strange e creatures said mrs lovely bird m 0 son 1921 1 western newspaper union |