Show BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN cy by THORNTON IV BURGESS JENNY WREN TELLS WHO THE STRANGER STRAN GERIS IS THE rhe longer peter stared at IL the stranger in the old orchard the more he realized how mistaken lie he had been in thinking that he nas dressed all in black now that peter was so BO near he could see that the stranger tt ranger was speckled all over with tiny light spots underneath he was dark brownish gray ills wings and tall fall were the same color with little touches of buff ills rather large bill was yellow peter hurried back to jenny wren and it must be confessed he looked sheepish you were right jenny wren ile he black at all confessed peter of course I 1 was ra right ht I 1 usually aim retorted jenny lie ile black be even related to the blackbird family and he any business in he Is the starling and he I 1 ant really an american at all AD this country anyway lies iles a foreigner what he Is a foreigner but you told me who he I 1 Is protested peter ile he Is the starling and he really an american at all replied jenny ve he comes from across the ocean the same as bully the english sparrow thank goodness he such a quarrelsome disposition as bully just the same the rest of us would be better belter satisfied if lie he were not here ile he has taken possession of one of the old houses of yellow wing the flicker and that means one less house for birds who really belong here it his family increases at the rate bullys billys family does im afraid some of us will be crowded out of the old orchard did you notice that yellow bill of his peter nodded 1 I certainly did he said 1 I very well help noticing it well theres a funny thing about that bill replied jenny in winter it turns almost black most host of us wear a different colored suit in winter but our bills remain the same ile he seems to be pretty well fixed here and I 1 dont see but what the thing for the rest of you birds to do to IB to make the best of 0 the matter said peter what I 1 want to know Is vt whether hether or not he Is of any use 1 I guess he must be of some good admitted jenny wren rather grudgingly ive ire seen him picking up tip worms and g grubs rubs but he likes grain and I 1 have a suspicion that it if his family becomes very numerous and I 1 suspect it will they aliey will eat cat more of 0 farmer crowns browns grain than khan they will pay for by the worms and bugs they destroy nello theres dandy the waxwing and ills his friends 0 T IV dursema sern sen ice |