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Stories of Birds

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Compiled From: Mother Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children, by Allen Walton Gould, Boston: Ginn & Company, (1900). Our Feathered Friends, by Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph Grinnell, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., Publishers, (1898). True Bird Stories, by Olive Thorne Miller, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1903). Memory Gems for Children, by Jessie Carr Tyndall, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, (1912).

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Table of Contents Mother Nature’s Children ..........................................1 How the Birds Cradle their Babies ........................................... 3 How Babies are Cradled in Clay and Wood ........................... 12 How the Birds Tend their Babies ........................................... 16 How Mother Nature Sets the Table for Birds ........................ 24 How Mother Nature Clothes the Birds .................................. 32 How Birds Learn to Fly .......................................................... 39 How Men and Birds Lay Up Food .......................................... 44

Our Feathered Friends ..............................................53 Introduction............................................................................ 55 The Message of a Mocking Bird ............................................. 60 Some People We Like to Know .............................................. 63 Civilized Birds ......................................................................... 67 How Birds Dress ..................................................................... 71 How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair ........................................ 76 What Birds Carry in their Pockets ......................................... 80 Child Birds.............................................................................. 85 How Baby Birds are Fed ......................................................... 90 At Meal-Time ......................................................................... 95 Seed-Eaters and Meat-Eaters ................................................ 100 Some Birds with a Bad Name ............................................... 104 Before Breakfast ................................................................... 109 Our Birds’ Restaurant. — Meals at all Hours....................... 114 Umbrellas and Other Things ................................................ 119

Table of Contents Continued Cradle Making ...................................................................... 125 Our Screech Owl .................................................................. 130 Birds at Work and Play ......................................................... 135 Some Other Birds at Work ................................................... 140 A Pet Humming-Bird ............................................................ 147 How We Took the Humming-Birds’ Pictures ...................... 151 Our Robin Redbreast ............................................................ 159 More About Our Robin ........................................................ 164 Going to Bed and Getting Up ............................................... 170 Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party ................................. 176 At the Garden Party .............................................................. 181 Our Bird Hospital ................................................................. 188 A Splendid Collection ........................................................... 191

True Bird Stories ................................................... 195 Preface .................................................................................. 196 n the Bird Room .................................................................. 197 The Bird Room ...................................................................... 199 The Gold Finches .................................................................. 202 The Goldfinch’s Fright........................................................... 205 The Bird That Would Not Be Free........................................ 208 The Busy Blue Jay .................................................................. 212 The Droll Tanager ................................................................. 219 The Goldfinch’s Devotion ..................................................... 222 A Madcap Thrush ................................................................. 225 The Baby Robin ..................................................................... 231

The Goldfinch’s Fun ..............................................................239 The Comical Chewink ...........................................................246 Polly’s Pranks .........................................................................253 Polly’s Outing.........................................................................259 The Golden Goose .................................................................265 The Saucy Oriole ...................................................................271 Antics in the Bird Room ........................................................278 Blizzards .................................................................................281 Three Sparrows that Live in a House ....................................289 Doctor Dot.............................................................................294 Birds Out of Doors ............................................................... 301 My First Bird ..........................................................................303 The Thrushes Who Lived in the City ....................................307 Barn Swallows in a Frolic .......................................................311 How the Dog Interfered .........................................................315 Upper and Lower Story in the Bird World .............................318 The Lost Baby ........................................................................321 How the Crow Baby was Punished ........................................325 A Jay’s Table Manners ...........................................................327 Friendly Wild Robins .............................................................329 The Droll Mockingbird ..........................................................332 A Sociable Baby Dove ...........................................................337 The Ducklings Who Would Not Give Up .............................340 Birds and Dolls .......................................................................343

Bird Poems .............................................................345

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Mother Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children by Allen Walton Gould

How the Birds Cradle their Babies

Stories of Birds