“Let me see,” cried Mary Frances. “Oh, Billy, will you make some later on?”
“I’m to make them in school next term,” explained Billy. “Mr. Carpenter, our teacher, told me about these houses one day when we were out walking. We happened to talk of what Professor Weed had told us in a lecture on birds, you see.”
“Do let me read about these houses,” begged Mary Frances, looking over his shoulder at the picture of—
Robins’ Sleeping Porch
A Robins’ Sleeping Porch
Robin Redbreast will not live in an enclosed house, but desires merely a shelter where the family can have plenty of fresh air.
“I believe in living out-of-doors,” says Mrs. Robin Redbreast, “and I shall not send the children to school in a schoolhouse, no matter how sanitary. They shall be educated in the open air. There is a lot more to be learned outdoors than indoors.”
Wrens’ Bungalow