LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| They did not move as the great gray bird floated straight towards their tree. | [Frontis] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Both of them were scared almost out of their wits. | [36] |
| They sat in an apple tree and watched the gulls swooping and soaring through the air. | [76] |
| The sparrows came rushing at Robert Robin and his family. | [104] |
THE EXCITING ADVENTURES
OF MISTER ROBERT ROBIN
CHAPTER I
WHERE MISTER ROBERT ROBIN LIVED, AND
SOMETHING ABOUT HIS NEIGHBORS
Mister and Mrs. Robert Robin lived in the big basswood tree which stood at the corner of Mister Tom Squirrel’s woods.
Their nest was made of sticks, and grass, and mud, and was so well hidden in the largest fork of the tree that if you had been standing near the foot of the big basswood, you could not have seen Mister Robert Robin’s nest at all. But if you had been able to fly up into the top of the big basswood tree, then you might have looked down and seen the nest and Mrs. Robert Robin’s four greenish blue eggs, right in the middle of it.
But if Mister Robert Robin, or Mrs. Robert Robin had spied you up in their tree, they would have made a great fuss about it. They would have screamed with all their might, and if you had gone near their nest they would have flown right at you, and tried to frighten you away.