Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-10

ut does" answered the bunny
gentleman. Get on youc fur coat
Baby Bunty, and your hat with the
Blue Jays feather and We'll take
this suet out to the woods for
other birds"
Soon the bunny rabbit gentleman
with his red, white and blue
striped rheumatism crutch, and
Baby Bunty were skipping through
the woods.
All of a sudden Baby Bunty
pulled Uncle Wiggily by the sleeve
of his coat and pointing to a tree
not far away, said
"Oh, look, Uncle Wiggily! There's
a bird upside down! Hen fall"
Uncle Wiggily looked through
his rose colored glasses and
laughed
THAT bird will not fall" said
the bunny. THAT is a nuthatch
and he can go up a tree either way
which is more than a woodpecker
can do"
ooh, what a funny name!"
laughed Baby Bunty. DO they
call him a nuthatch because he
hatCbeS nuts?"
mo, indeed" said the bird him
self, turning right side up on the
tree and looking at Baby Bunty
with smile. She saw that he was
slate colored with a white breast
"They called me nuthatch years
ago." said the bird, because / am
very fond of nuts, especially beech
nuts. and when some people saw
me wedging beech nuts in the bark
of a tree they thought l was doing
it to hatch little birds out of the
nuts"
do you?" asked Baby Bunty.
Indeed notn' laughed the nut
hatch bird. my little birds are
Matched out of eggs, the same as
other birds. But l wedge beech
nuts in the cracks of tree trunks
so / may the more easily break
open the nut shells to act out the
meats. Just now l am looking for
bugs"
And with that the nuthatch be-
gan walking up and down the
trunk of the tree, sticking his bill
into all the cracks he could see. 1t
did not seem to matter to the bird
whether he was upside down or
downside up.
81 should think he'd get dizzy
and fall" whispered Baby Bunty.
'Oh, l never do" said the nut
hatch. But l must say l am not
finding much to eat this day. I
haven't any beech nuts with me
and all the bugs and beetles seem
to have gone away"
"Oh, do you like suet?" asked
Baby Bunty, remembering what
she had in her pocket.
"Suet" cried the nuthatch. "T
should say l do! But please don't
tease me. Where can l get bit Of
suet?"
Il have some here-some that
the Chicka-Dee did not want"
spoke Baby Bunty, and she put
the piece of nice, white meat fat
on a stump near where she and |
Uncle Wiggily stood.
"Oh, joy!" cried the nuthatch, |
and without troubling to turn him
sell. right side up on the tree, over
he flew and began picking at the
suet. "Oh, that is very good" he'll
said. You are very kind to me, |
Uncle Wiggily and Baby Bunty. |
What favor can l do you?"
! Uncle Wiggily was just saying
that he and the little rabbit girl
did not expect any favor for being |
kind to birds when, all of sud-
den, out of the woods stalked thej
queer old Balck Bushy Bear.
"Burr-r-r!' growled the bear, |
who was bit cross that day. "1'm
going to nibble some one!"
Don't nibble me-" begged Baby
Bunty.
mo, I'll not nibble you," said the
Bear.
Nor me-" chirped the nuthatch.
mo. I'll nibble your promised
The Bear.
How about :ne?" asked Uncle
Wiggily.
You're the one I'm going to nib,
ble!" wuffed the Bear. and he was
Just going to grab the bunny gen
tleman when. all of quickness.
The nuthatch jumped from the
stump on the back of the bear,
aa 'arss sas svpa '.