What do the song birds do? Ah! they have their work, too. They sing cheerfully while the other birds work, and make the hours short and the day happy.
They sing of the goodness of God, and of the beauty in the forest and sky.
If there were no song birds, the workers might forget all of these lovely things. Then their hearts would be as hard as the tree the woodpecker is chopping.
One spring morning the song birds were singing so beautifully that every one listened.
The woodpeckers cried, “Plitt! plitt!” The crows screamed, “Rah! rah!” and the blackbirds laughed with glee. This meant that they liked the songs.
In the nests were many baby birds. They liked to hear the songs, too, so they stretched up their little heads.
But they could not understand the songs about the sky and the forest. You see, they had not seen these things yet, and they did not know what the songs meant.
The poor babies drooped their heads and were very sad.
