SUPPLEMENTARY READING ABOUT ROBIN

A rich man went into his garden where he found the robins eating his strawberries.

"Ho! ho! you little thieves, away with you!"

"Stealing ami?" said robin, wiping his bill on the fence post.

The man opened the gate and went into his rose garden ; great blushing beauties greeted him on every hand.

"Look at us, queens of your flowers!" cried they all, swinging in the sweet air. "Had it not been for robin, faithful robin, we would have been so blighted that we would have hung our heads with disappointment and shame. Robin ate all those horrible rose chafers, and so saved our lives and our beauty."

The rich man went into his vegetable garden.

"Look at us!" cried the growing treasures. "Robin ate the cutworms, and so he has saved our lives."

The rich man visited his fields of grain and his blossoming meadows.

"Look at us!" nodded the grain and grasses. ' 'But for robin, the army worms would have destroyed half our number."

The man went back to his strawberries: "Help yourself, robin, help yourself; I have sold you a few strawberries at a price higher than I can command in any market; help yourself!"