Evening star., 1914-07-28
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SGOLDS LAZY BIRDS
Says They Should Work Hard
to Prevent Insects From
Damaging Trees.

| The Patch is a fine
y ! !: ): !: :: ): :
| S9SySS place, children. But
| A4N ENM the town is all right.
A N A On. my way here this
| lleS " morning came
| /. :, S through the Leafy
| No Mall on little
| N6AV matter Of business
| with that Miss Nut
hatch. I told you
about the other day-snippy thing. It
| doesn't pay to be snippy. children, and
whatever happens don't ever put on
| airs! You never see old Peter putting on
airs now do you? Not a singel air;
that's saying a great deal when you
thlnk Of my fine ears and invalua BILE
| h1nd runners! You don't see those rum
| ners on the button, but I've got them.
all the same. Otherwise. how could I
| hpperty hp-but never mind all that
| 1ou see, those country cousins who live
up In New Hampshire have heard what
l told you. Miss Nuthatch told me.
never tell tales, little children. Initiate
P. Rabbit.
,r,ss ven; ! didn't have chance to tel,
MISS Nuthatch about q letter Tsue ~ 90 'ei T.,
my vest this very minute. hac.s,Is got a IN
wasn't IN the Leafy Mall I looked ali
uver. MRS. Robin. who housekeens in
.,le next tree. said she wasn't sure hut
Wine,n Sdn ,rnought she saw Miss Nuthatch
l1olning-but. of course, she couldn't he
certain because it might be a crow
No", there's a careful bird for YOU,
Naturaily. nobody with eyes could mis-
shoxs shn1 a t,,S crow for nuthatch. but it just
set hedself in trouble. And that is an
exceedingly safe trait. For one thing
she IS too busy training her young ones
LOT 1nelr southern journey to come later
on. She tells me it is very discouraging.
| because the young robins won't heiiats
a WORD she says. You positively CAN'T
cannot-make them realize that winter
VIII DO coming. and that the leaves and
tne warmth of the Mall will give way
70 Ice and snow. They believe it will
always be beautiful like it is now. Just
because they don't know
Think TheE.Kaow E:-erything.
That's surprising thing about chill
dren-birds and humans-yes, and even
rabbits. They think they know
everything until they find out they
know nothing. Littlest Peter is inst
the same way.
Wen. even if Miss Nuthatch was
lucky enough to escape a personal ser
mon she is going to hear what those
estimaole relatives of hers said about
now:
Dear Peter: was very much surpr;sed
that the Miss Nuthatch whom YOU met in
Cncie Sans Mall is too proud to claim
Rinshlp to her country cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Nuthatch, who live in my Aunt
New Hampshire, I've often heard that
1t made people stuck up to live in Wash
lngton. but didn't s'pose it would ever
turn the heads of any one in such SEN
sible family as the Nuthatches. When
you meet her again tell her that Mr.. and
Mrs. n. have worked hard all sum-
mer creeping up and down all the big
trees In the Garden Of Allah and kill
ing all the bugs and worms and elm
leaf beetles, and are teaching their seven
fluffy gray white babies, who are out
of the hole in the apple tree now. to do
the same. So the trees are all lovely and
leafy and green. Then will you tell her
also how very dreadfully the bugs and
worms are eating the trees in the parks
of Washington right under her very nose,
and how hard poor Uncle Sam has to
fight to save his lovely trees? If she has
any sense at all she will see how silly
she has been to fit about the Leafy Mall
and look down on her country cousins.
when she ought to get to work with all
her family and make a finish of those
pests for dear old Uncle Sam.
If you'd be a lady bird
Loved throughout the earth.
Go to work and serve your friends
And, show what you are worth
Your loving friend.
ELOISE SANGER HOWELL.
Annaslee, Warner, n. H.
1 should think that snippy nuthatch
would be ashamed to show a wing, after
this. And its true. every word about the
trees. Only this very morning old Col.
Army Worm told me that -. But that's
another story, as Grandfather Frog said
before IIipling. PETER RABBIT.
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