Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN by THORNTON THORN TON W burgess AN ALLDAY ALL DAY SONGSTER 0 VER in a maple tree on the edge ot of farmer browns dooryard do orvard aled redeye the vireo and ills his little mate reter rabbit knew that they bad a nest best there because jenny wren had told him so ile he would have guessed it anyway because redeye spent so much time to in that tree no matter what hour of the day peter visited the aa 24 I 1 vill redeye was a little fellow of about the size of one of the warblers Warb lers old bold orchard liard lie he heard redeye singing sin ing over cover in the maple tree ile he thought to himself that it if song Is an expression of happiness redeye must be the happiest of all birds bedee was a little fellow of about the size elze of one of the warblers Warb lers and quite as modestly dressed as any of peters acquaintances the crown of his head was gray with a little blackish border underneath he was white for the rests rest he be was dressed in light ollre green the first time he camo came down near enough for peter to see him well peter understood why he la Is called caled redeye nelleye ills eyes were red yes sir his eyes were red and this fact alone was enough to distinguish him from any other members of his family but it often that redeye came down so near the ground that peter could see his eyes ile he preferred to spent spend most of his time in the lie tree tops and peter only got of 0 ailin now and then but if III lie see him often it was loss less often that lie failed to lo hear ailin 1 I 1 dont ee hen redeye finds time to rot ent deplored dec lored peter as he listened to the lu willingly unending song in the rupple tria tree llop ll cp believes in singing while lie ile works sald said jenny wren for my biart liart I 1 should lini ili think hed wear his thront out just listening to hlin him makes my own throat sore bora when other birds bird s fin they dont do anything else but if liliu eje ie kings bings all the time he be Is hunt ing his meals and only stops long enough to swallow a worm or a bu bug when lie finds it just as soon its as it Is down doin lie he begins to sing again while he ha hunts for another I 1 must say for the that they are mighty good nest builders ilae you seen their D nest est oler 01 er in that maple tree peter reter peter shook ills his head you probably see it anyway declared jenny wren it Is high up and aad those lemes leases are so BO thick that they hide it its a regular little basket fastened in a fork near the end of a branch and it la Is woven almost as nicely as Is the nest of goldy the oriole it made of asked peter I 1 strips of bark plant down spiders rs web grass and pieces of paper replied jenny a funny thing about redee lie he dearly loves a piece of paper in his nest lies hes as fussy about hain haeng a scrap of paper as cres ty the flycatcher la 19 about having a ajr piece v of snakeskin I 1 had just a peep into the nest a few days ago and unless I 1 am greatly mistaken sally sly the cowbird has greatly imposed on the I 1 am certain I 1 saw raw one of her eggs in their nest D T W burgess Burgea fl service sauce for cooked rice or cottage pudding add any flavoring desired simple fruit salad rake two cupfuls of orange sections one half cupful of peeled and halved haired rapes grapes two tablespoonfuls of grape juice and serve with french dr dressing es s ing fruit ice rub three peeled bananas through a sieve add the strained juice of three oranges and three lemons two cupfuls of sugar three cupfuls of water and a pinch of salt freeze add thin cream instead of the water and one will have hare a delightful cream milk sherbet three of a kind mix the juice of three oranges and three lemons with the mashed pulp of three bananas add three cupfuls of sugar and three cupfuls each of milk and cream stir until the sugar Is dissolved and freeze Q by western newspaper union |