ams ran down through the valleys, and emptied into the lakes, and the waters from the lakes

robins in his part of the country thought the same thing, so it was to the sh

reat fun to fly from one woods to another, and then look around to see

time there is!"

n. "When one is taking a vacation he should

. Robin. "Children, get your fathe

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ter Catbird said: "Now sing it again, and I will sing along with you! I would l

gh Mister Catbird had a very fine voice, and could sing very good indeed, he put in so

nd the little robins were very much surprised to see a nice-looking bi

ackbird's song all the way through. Then he said "Meow!" and then he sang a song very much like Robert Robin's "Rain" song, then he said "Meow!" again, and laughed. It made Rober

eeting you, sir, but we are on our way to the se

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first the little robins were badly frightened. They saw the hu

ere are many hawks here, too, but if you keep under the cover of the bushes, t

d the gulls swooping and soaring through the air. Many boats were plowing through

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Robert Robin. "It tastes bric-a-brac-ish! We will go over to

d watched the gulls swooping

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a fine drink from his nice bird fountain, and Robert Robin plunged into t

of them were bathing in G

ne is traveling!" said Robert Robin. "Now I

l the young birdsters.

pped down and began tripping over the green grass. Suddenly he stood perfectly still and

obin. "You must learn to stop, look, and l

hen, like a flash, he drove his sharp beak into

ns had seized the worm and w

amed Robert Robin. "A cat

e big worm, and all of them

on fountain. No water was coming from the fountain, and its

ill get into this old fountain and wait until a robin gets

hid in the ol

as a caretaker, and he saw the big

atch a bird!" he said to himself. "She is the same cat that has been c

man took hold of the little iron wheel and turned it just as quickly as he could, and the water came rushing out of the old iron fountain, and the b

out of the basin, and ran across th

wet as a mop! Who would ever have expected that old fountain to blow up like that? General Scamp is letting his place run down

he told the little robins never to go near that place. "That big c

ty park. He expected to get a room in the Bird House, but the rooms were all take

moke of a factory chimney drifted through the park. The lights of the city an

n a strange tree!" said Mr

" said Robert Robin, "and those b

d tree, and build us a nice new nest, in the place where the old one was, then I could lay four more eggs, and we would have plenty of time to raise another family this summer!" When Mrs. Robin

long the shore of the great lake for a short distance, and then suddenly swerved up into the high air over the woods and fields, and at half

ster Bob-o-link who was singing his Spingle, Spangle song, w

id to himself. "I had better go over and see where they

od tree and sang out: "What, ho! Strangers!

d: "Well! Well! If there isn't my old friend, Jim Crow! It do

aimed Jim Crow. "I thought that

we have returned!

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hat we were away a week! But the very best part of a vacatio

ong when the red sun was sinking behind the purple hill. Mrs. Crow has had the blues all day, Billy Rabbit has been very lonely, and even Melancthon Coon was asking what had become of you; he had missed your s

bin, "I will surely remember to sing you my Good-n

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