The strange nurses to whom the cuckoo confides her young become not only good mothers to them, but neglect their own children to take care of the young cuckoos.
As the young cuckoo thrives and grows strong, he thrusts the other birds out of the nest, so that he may have all the room to himself. For five weeks or more his adopted mother supplies him with food.
In the picture a thrush is represented as feeding a young cuckoo, that has probably driven off all the thrush's own children.
Dora Burnside.
JIPPY AND JIMMY.
Jippy and Jimmy were two little dogs:
They went to sail on some floating logs.
The logs rolled over, the dogs rolled in;
And they got very wet, for their clothes were thin.
Jippy and Jimmy crept out again:
They said, "The river is full of rain!"
They said, "The water is far from dry!
Ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi!"
Jippy and Jimmy went shivering home:
They said, "On the river no more we'll roam;
And we won't go to sail until we learn how,—
Bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow!"
Laura E. Richards.