TO
"E. E. E."
[p.f] CONTENTS
- PAGE
- Old Mr. Owl Writes a Book[1]
- The Woodpeckers Start a Bird Band [4]
- The Cardinal Bird and the Robin [7]
- The Winter Wrens' Dew-drop Baths [10]
- The Seagulls Move to Bluey Cove [13]
- How the Little Redbird Became Red [16]
- Poor Old Mr. Owl's Toothache [19]
- The Soloist of the Bird Concert [22]
- The Robins Open a Spring Shop [25]
- The Race Between the Secretary Birds [28]
- The Quarrel Between Naughty Little Sparrows [31]
- The Successful Concert of the Chickadees [34]
- The Colony of Starlings Give a Ball [37]
- Robin Redbreast's and Miss Robin's Wedding [40]
- The Tame Canary Bird and His Mistress [43]
- The Pet Bird of the Ward [46]
- The Eagle's Pride as the Bird of Freedom [49]
- What the Birds Thought of the Fourth of July [52]
- Mr. Nightingale's New Friend Mr. Blackbird [55]
- [p.g] Mr. Plain Sparrow Calls on Ducks [58]
- Farmer's Scarecrow Protects a Corn-field [61]
- The Brave Brown Sparrows in Winter [64]
- What the Rainbow Thinks of the World [67]
- Eagles and Ravens [70]
- The Eagles Who Were Always Still [73]
- The Bobolinks Have a Tea Party [76]
- A Happy Day in Birdland [79]
- The Robins' Spring Concert [82]
- The Crows at the Fairies' Ball [85]
- The Naughty Little Sick Snowbirds [88]
- A Sparrow Calls on a Hippopotamus [91]
- The Robins Come to the Rescue [94]
- Mr. and Mrs. Owl's Storeroom [97]
- Polly Was the Heroine of the Fire [100]
- The Winter Home for the Wren Family [103]
- The Vain Goldfinch Learns a Lesson [106]
- The Bats Have a Jollification [109]
- The Repentance of Little Jim Crow [112]
- The Rescue of the Canary Bird [115]
- Small Fire Department Rescues Birds [118]
[p.h] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- "Mr. Owl awakened the fairies and told them to listen to his book" [Frontispiece]
- FACING PAGE
- "In the afternoons Elizabeth lets him out of his cage" [44]
- "'We've been on this chair so long,' said the fourth eagle" [74]
- "The mother humming-bird hurried back" [96]
[p.i] These stories first appeared in the American Press Association Service and the Western Newspaper Union.
Many of the sketches in this volume are the work of Rebecca McCann, creator of the "Cheerful Cherub," etc.