“Be careful and not tear your dress on the twigs!” said the first.
“This is an old dress, so I don’t care!” said the other.
“There is a bird’s nest!” said the first little girl.
“Turn it over and see what is inside of it!” said the other.
So the little girl poked Robert Robin’s nest with the toe of her shoe and turned it over, and out jumped Montgomery Robin, and the first thing that he did was to open his mouth just as wide as he could. Both the little girls laughed.
“It is a young robin!” said Lucy, “let’s feed it some of our strawberries!”
“You may feed it some of yours, if you want to, but I am going to take mine home to mother!” said Lettie, who was a fussy little girl, and her mother did not eat strawberries. They gave her neuritis and pimples.
“That poor little robin may have been under that nest, days, and days, and he is almost starved!” said Lucy. “So I am going to feed the poor thing some of my strawberries!”
So Lucy fed Montgomery three ripe strawberries. “Now that is all you may have now!” said Lucy to Montgomery. “People who have been having a famine should not overload their stomachs!”
“Don’t touch the dirty thing or you will get bugs on you!” said Lettie.