Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-18
L I1ILLESIoR!Es
6rBEDTInE
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright. 1917. by T W. Bursess)
or Mistah Buzzard Finishes
His Tale.

1t seemed to Peter Rabbit that or
Mistah Buzzard was gone a long time.
You know how it is when you are
the story teller has been called away.
Really it was only a few minutes that
OF Mistah Buzzard was gone, but it
SEEMED to Peter ages and ages.
'.Let me see. where was Ah?" said
or Mistah BuzzHrd as soon as he had
once more seated himself comfortably
on the tall dead tree under which Peter
sat
You had reached the place where
Grandaddy and Granny Buzzard de-
cided to wait to see how the other birds
built their nests" prompted Peter.
Just so. Just So replied or Mistah
Buzzard. We'll, Grandaddy and Gran
ny Buzzard just sat round and watched
the other birds and said nothing and
looked wise. All reckons there was
a terrible time building those first
nests. and when they were all done
All reckons none of them was much
as nests go now. There was a right
smart lot OF fussins and worrying and
Quarreling, but Grandaddy and Granny
Buzzard kept out of ii, and when any
one asked them where they were build
ing their nest and what they were
making 1t of they simply looked wise
and said nothing.
make a powerful secret of where their
nests were, but sitting around just
watching Grandaddy and Granny Buzz
gard found out where most of them
Were. They waited until the last of
their neighbors had finished their nests
and then they just went around look
ing at each to see how it was made
and what it was made Of They found
all kinds of nests. some made of sticks
and some made of straw and some
mi ND nf nd 40 af
Seemed like nary one of them just
suited Grandaddy and Granny Buzz
card. Any way they kept hoping that
they would see one that would suit
a-looking and a-looking. Granny Bug
card wanted her nest made out OF
something soft and comfortable and
Grandaddy BuZZard wanted il made OF
something IL wouldn't be much work
to find and less work to put together
$50 they couldn't make up their mind:
and time went drifting along and drift.
ing along and first thing they knew
every last one of the other birds had
nest and eggs and here were Grandaddy
and Granny, Buzzard without even :
place picked to build a nest. Wher
Grandaddy Buzzard realized this hi
scratched his haid and began to lool
worried. Granny Buzzard scratched hel
haid and looked mo- worried.
Pears like to me we-uns haven
daddy Buzzard at last.
".Ah was thinking that same thing,
replied Granny Buzzard. If we-uns
stop to build nest now we-uns will bt
so late the season is going to be al
over befo' we-uns know it. All reckon.
All ought to be sitting on those aigg.
right now
..Ah reckons that's right replied
Grandaddy Buzzard. but TO the life o.
me All don see what we-uns can dc
about it,
Two or three days later Granny Buzz
zard called him to one side in a plac.
where nobody is likely to come along
and showed him two aiggs right on the
ground. 'Ah reckons that is better thar
any nest, said she. .Nobody's going tt
look on the ground TO aiggs, and il
they do there's a powerful lot of GROUND
to look over for two aiggs. The wine
can't blow them out of a nest and wher
they hatch the babies can't fall ant
hurt themselves. Ah'm going to ST
right here until they hatch. All reck
ons this nest building is all plumb
foolishness anyway
"'Ah reckons 1t is, too, replied Gran
daddy Bu2zard with sigh of relief. be
cause he hadn't got to help build a nest
And ever since then the Buzzart
family done get along without nest!
and have saved themselves a powerful
lot of work." concluded or Mistah Buz
card.
And to this day Peter isn't sur,
whether the Buzzards are smart or jus
shiftless.