The Blue Birds’ Cottage
These heavenly blue birds, with pinkish plumage on their breasts, add great beauty to our home gardens, and fortunate is the owner of the bird house which they select “rent free.” They are desperately afraid of English sparrows, or more of them would tenant the houses round about the home garden. Blue birds eat up whole families of garden pests at a meal.
“My, aren’t those bird houses dear!” said the little girl. “I hope we’ll have one of each kind some day. Then we’ll feel that our garden is well protected from injurious insects. Are there any other creatures which destroy them beside toads and birds?”
[CHAPTER XXVI]
Little Ladybird
“CAN’T say with certainty,” replied Billy, “until I look in my note book.”
“Well, it’s just inside the play house, isn’t it?” asked Mary Frances.
“I’m getting rather tired, Mary Frances,” said Billy.
“Oh, go get it, Billy,” Mary Frances begged, “please do, bring it out to the garden bench—that’s a good fellow.”