Show WEL WELCOME C OME ROBIN TELLS OF HIS adventures YOU ever think of welcome DO robin as having strange adventures and narrow escapes peter rabbit never did welcome ome robin is such a cheery fellow always singing cheer UPI cl cheer beer up cupl I 1 cheer up cupl I 1 cheer and making everybody glad by the sound of his voice that somehow peter never once had thought that welcome possibly could have much to worry him A great many people are just that way they are so much taken up with their own troubles that they never think that their cheerful neighbors may have just as great troubles and perhaps worse when welcome robin told peter what a long journey he had made to get back there to the old orchard it was hard work for peter to believe that anyone could possibly travel so far and it was still harder for him to believe that anyone who had been so far away could find his way back again and yet he never had known welcome robin to tell an untruth so he just HAD to believe but he just had to ask how welcome found his way back nh welcome that is nh welcome oh replied easy enough we birds when we take the long journey to the sunny southland and back have regular paths through the air which we follow paths through the airl air exclaimed peter as if this was quite too much for him to believe how can there be paths patha through the air peter scratched his head wonderingly 1 I am simply telling you what is so replied welcome as if he were a little put out by peters seeming doubt when I 1 go back next fall I 1 shall go just the same way that I 1 did last fall all the birds do there is a great deal that you folks folks 1 I know you could see at night said peter who live on the ground do not know and cannot understand 1 I beg your pardon returned peter humbly 1 I mean to doubt your word only it seems so funny to think of paths in the air you must have a great many adventures on such a long journey welcome robin sighed yes said he 1 I do As exciting as the adventures we have right here in the green forest and on the green meadows asked peter goodness yes exclaimed welcome robin you see we never know what we may be flying into that is one reason we fly very high and mostly by night peter looked more surprised than ever eve r 1 I know you could see at night said he what do you fly at night for its safer replied welcome robin we dont have to worry about hawks then they are always hanging around when we make 0 our long io journey urney then we have to eat ur and we have to do that in the daytime so as to be able to find the food it is safer and better to eat and rest during the day and fly during the night so that is the way most of us do if use those big ears of yours you will hear birds calling to each other almost any night from now on as they pass on to the north be coming soon for mistress spring is really here and most of the birds follow her pretty closely these long journeys are very exciting and we have some very narrow escapes I 1 nearly lost my life on the way back here tell me about it begged peter |