Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON W BURGESS FARMER BROWNS FRIENDS S PETER RABBIT sat admiring A AS Kose Rose breast the grosbeak another bird appeared in the tree with rose breast chos that cried peter mrs lira grosbeak of course who else would it be sputtered jenny rather crossly never never would I 1 have guessed it replied peter she look the least bit like him except that she Is the same game size and shape this was quite true there was no beautiful rose color about mrs gros it seem possible that she could be the mate of handsome Rose breast beak she wore brown and gray principally ci with little touches of buff here and there and with dark streaks on her breast over each eye was a whitish line it seem possible that she could be the mate of handsome rose breast to peter she looked more like an overgrown member of the sparrow family while Rose breast sang gang mrs grosbeak was very busy picking buds and blossoms from the trees this struck peter ieter as queer what Is she doing that for he be inquired for the same reason that you bite off sweet clover blossoms and leaves replied jenny wren tartly do you mean to say bay that they live on buds and blossoms cried peter 1 I never heard of such a thing I 1 think farmer brown wo would uld like that tut rut tut tut tut you can ask more silly billy questions than anybody of my acquaintance retorted jenny wren of course they dont live on buds and blossoms it if they depended on those they would soon starve to death use your head peter use your head you tou know well enough that buds and blossoms last only a very hort time the grosbeaks Gros beaks eat a few just for the sake of variety but they live mostly on bugs and insects you mk ask farmer browns boy who helps him most in his bis potato patch and hell tell you its the grosbeaks Gros beaks they certainly do love potato bugs they eat some gome fruit but on the whole they are about as useful folk around the garden as anyone I 1 know now run along peter rabbit and dont bother me any more peter run along right away ne ile sat around watching Rose breast and sirs grosbeak until he be happened to look up to see farmer browns coy boy just starting down don through the old orchard then peter decided it was time for him to leave 0 T vv burgess service Sol vice |