“How delightful to own a home of your own,” said the she-bluebird.
“Isn’t it?” agreed the he-bluebird.
“Is that a wren’s house over there?” asked she, flying over. But when she attempted to poke her nose inside, out rushed two little wrens at her and scolded her away.
“My love,” said he, “how you are trembling. Let us build a house of our own.”
And that’s what they did. In a stump in an open field they found exactly the hole they wanted and there they made their nest.
It wasn’t long before their little ones came and found it the snuggest in the world.
DID JIP DINE ON CHICKEN?
One day a dog named Jip went for a walk. He came to a yard where there was a hen with her brood of chicks. Said Jip to himself, “A downy little yellow chick would make a sweet dinner for a dog. I think I’ll have it.” He turned in at the gate. But Mother Hen had something to say about it. “Cluck, cluck,” she cried to her chicks, and spread out her wings to hide them. Then she lowered her head, stuck out her sharp beak, and made straight for Jip. He turned tail and fled home as fast as his legs would carry him.