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    The Story of a Robin
    The Story of a Robin
    The Story of a Robin
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    The Story of a Robin

    By Agnes S. Underwood

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Story of a Robin - Agnes S. Underwood

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      Release Date: March 31, 2008 [eBook #24970]

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      THE STORY OF A ROBIN

      [Illustration: "Two old robins were consulting."

      Page 9.]

      THE STORY OF A ROBIN

      [Illustration: A FEAST FOR A KING

      Page 16]

      T. Nelson and Sons

      London, Edinburgh, and New York

      THE STORY OF A ROBIN

      by

      AGNES S. UNDERWOOD

      [Illustration]

      T. Nelson and Sons London, Edinburgh, and New York 1898

      CONTENTS.

      THE STORY OF A ROBIN, 9

      APPLE-PIE ORDER, 40

      THE STORY OF A ROBIN.

      One fine summer morning two old robins were consulting about breaking up their household. In other words, they thought the time had come when their young ones should turn out of the nest and find food for themselves. There were five little birds in that nice, warm nest, but it was much too small for them now that they were so well feathered; and as they quarrelled terribly about getting the best place, the weakest one was in danger of being tumbled over the side with the pushing and struggling that went on. Then they were such hungry birds that their parents could not find enough of food to satisfy them, and the poor old birds were getting quite thin, and were tired flying from their nest to the plot where the gardener was raising some early potatoes, which was the best place to find food, and back with their mouths full.

      Cock Robin said to his wife,—

      This is going to be a very warm day, and I am not going to work all through the sunshiny hours feeding birds old enough to look after themselves. We shall say we are going away for a holiday, as we require change of air, and they must go and find their own food. Don't look so sad, my dear; it is the way of the world. The same thing happened to us. I wonder what my father would have said had I screamed to him for food when I was the age my sons are?

      Mrs. Robin listened dutifully to this long speech, and, like a good wife, acquiesced in what her husband said. But as she flew with him to tell the youngsters of the change awaiting them, her heart was a little sore on account of her latest hatched birdie. He was not so big or so strong as the others, and she feared he might be caught by a cat or die of cold. However, it was no use dwelling on these dismal ideas; he must just take his chance, as all birds before him had done. She would give him some good advice as to avoiding cats, and the proper drying of his feathers when they got wet, so that he should not get rheumatism in his bones.

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