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rattled against the , es of the Page home. '.mdc;Y1g:iirone wires were round -men sleet The trees in the arch- lllg mo 'wope a heavy ice coat. ;.lv,.'n the bare spots were covered ' hard. crackl.'I'lCe. .

elt on the couch. by window. looking out wet outdoors. Thcrc playing with his sled

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. ch as the house. He was f';,',d,f.3g his head to the side. for l, wind was blowing into his 1,-in-.v :1 cars, a d peltlng him with d;., nf frozen rain. Laurie laugh- ... as the little dos slipped at the mrner Md dug in his toenails maifidtiifrn Laurie looked at the xllrlllbd by the garden fence. In irrolig their icy branches sat six :2;-v cold. wet sparrows. They mmed up their feathers. nnd drew in their necks. trying to get com- gm-Llblf. One brave little fellow M, hoppmg about on the ice, look-

s -f d. 1"Cof,(,u 1i(lgn1m3'." he railed. "conic IN." ('0 see tho little sparrows Thai must be cold and wet. I feel W m,.,.,. for them. Whrrn are their )(I' s s?" . 1.Xli'.fs. Page put down her dish- (Valli and came over to stand be- ..(lr him and w.rtch out the win- . - -m;TT'TT”--T

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dow. "They do not live in houses." she answered. "but they try to find shelter among the trees, Usually they stay in the spruce trees when it is snowing. or raining. but most of the trees around here are bare now. 'I'hey must be cold."

"Would they be unhappy be- cause they have no warm house?" Laurie asked. "Why couldn't I

take them in here?” ”They would not be happy in here dear," his mother answered

gently. "You see. they would not know if you meant to be kind, and they would be afraid. Besides. they like to be able to fly about as free as the wind. Their feathers are like sweaters to keep them warm."

"What are they trying to find on the ground?" Laurie inquired

"Seeds. or tiny bits of food." his mother replied. "When the Ice covers the ground. it covers up the food too, so that the little birds are often vary huligry."

Laurie sat silently and watched the brown sparrpws, his three year old mind very busy thinking things over. At last he said, "Mommy, could we throw out bread crumbs fonthe hirds? would thcy like that. or would it scare them away?" .

"That would be a good idea." swid his mother. "Here is the end of the loaf of bread. Break it up into tiny pieces and throw it out here by the tx;er-s."

Laurie did as he was told. Thou he ran back to watch out the win- dow. Soon thn little sparrows were back busily picking up the crumbs.

Suddenly Laurie laughed. "Come. Mommy. chnie. quickly. See the two spnrrows with the our crust. Each one wants it. Aren't they funny? That's the way Susan and I sometimes fight.over my tricycle. Oh, look, the one little bird took the crust and flow awav with it. Now the other follow will have to look for one lo” himself"

"'i'Ii':it is what often iianpcns." said his mother. "Now every day you can gather the crumim and

put them out for your little fea- thcred friends. Thvn when summer COHIPS, they will pay you brck by mtliig illr- hugs in ;.unr garden."

"Then we are all liappy." mid Lwurlc, as he went to play with Frisky.

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"Pia better that a cause he lost Than gained when at too1i'eat a cost. ' -old Mother Nature.

Biacky the Crow I.nd his follow- ers, known in the Green Forest as the Black Gang, were having fun. Hooty the Owl was not hav- ing fun. Those black rascals were doing their utmost to make life miserable for Booty. They were flying around him. all the time screaming at him. They flopped their wings in his face. Now and then the boldest of them darted in and pulled out a feather. They were threatening to kill him. Yes. air. that is what they were doing.

They didn't make Hooty one bit afraid. but they did make him most uncomfortable. He snapped his bill angrily. It was hard work to watch all his tormentors at once, but he could move his head around so fast and so far around that he managed to keep watch of all of them all the time.

Now some of those crows were young. The winter that was just ended was their first winter. They still had much to learn. so it was that some of these younger crows were the moat daring. They were overbold. They were the ones that darted in closest. The older ones were content to fly about I-footy. screaming at him and threatening him, but always careful not to go too near.

And during all this excitement Blacky sat keeping watch. He was in the top of a tree close at hand. But it was hard work to keep watch and at the same time to see what was going on around Hooty. So it was that he failed to see Mrs. Hooty until she was almost in the midst of that black cloud around Hooty.

Blacky was to be excused in part because Mrs. Hooty had come from behind some tall pines. The instant he did see her. eh ahrielted a warn-

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W. Burgess ing. But it came too late. Those noisy crows flew frantically in all directions, but Mrs. 1-footy had one. It was one of the younger member! of the Black Gang.

Now smart as he was .Blacky had made one mismkc. When he had found Hootys favorite roolt.

And during all this excitement Blacky not keeping watch.

he had looked no farther before calling the gang together. Had he looked just a little farther in that lonesome part of the Green Forest, he fight have discovered Hooty's nest and Mrs. Honty sitting on it. Hooty and Ml's. 1-footy are the first of all the feathered folk to begin nesting each year. They do not wait for the coming of sweet Mistress Spring. They do not wait for snow and ice to disappear. it is still winter nlicll they begin making over an old nest. And Mrs. Hooty has more than once been covered with snow as she sat on her eggs.

That is what she had been do- ing when she heard the Black Gang having what the members called "having fun." She had known at once that. it was Hooty whom they were screaming at. She had waited a bit to see if I-footy would try to fly away. She didnt' think he would. She knew that if he did those crows would have the advanlage. They would be able to get above him and dart down at him. and he couldn't help himself. When she war sure he was going to re- main on his favorite perch, she slipped out on silent wings to take those crows by surprise.

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