“Oh! Bugs yourself!” said Lucy. “I hope you step on a snake! It would serve you right for being so nicey nicey!”
“You are a very rude little girl, to say such things!” said Lettie.
“I am very sorry if I hurt your feelings, Lettie!” said Lucy. “It was very rude of me to wish that you would step on a snake! I will take it all back, but I would laugh if you got a spider down your neck!”
Then Lucy and Lettie went out of the woods and left little Montgomery sitting on the ground, but in a very few minutes he started flying from stump to stump, and soon he was sitting in the cedar tree close by little Sheldon.
Towards night Robert Robin and Mrs. Robin coaxed the baby robins back into the big basswood tree, and all that night the four of them sat on the same limb and slept just as fine as could be.
At dawn, Robert Robin sang his “Hurry up!” song, then he came back to see how his family was getting along. The four baby robins looked very good in their new silky feathers, and they seemed almost as large as Mrs. Robin, and if their breasts had been red instead of speckled you could hardly have told them from full-grown robins. But they were still quite babies, and had to be fed, and it was several days before their parents taught them to find food for themselves.
“You are a great big man-bird, now. Almost as tall as your father, and you ought to be ashamed to even think of letting your mother feed you!” said Mrs. Robin to Montgomery, who still had the habit of opening his mouth as wide as he could.
About the middle of the week, they were all flying around and getting their own food, so Robert Robin said to Mrs. Robin: “I have had a little matter on my mind for quite a while!”
“What is it?” asked Mrs. Robin.
“I have been thinking about taking a vacation!” said Robert Robin. “I have been working pretty hard, this summer, and the strain is beginning to tell! Only last night, I dreamed that seven spotted cats were chasing me through a briar patch! When I awoke I was all covered with a cold sweat! What I need is a little rest and relaxation!”