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afraid of running into something or 

 that some one of his enemies might 

 approach from that side and do him 

 harm. 



But the sunlight and warmth and scent 

 of apple blossoms soon revived his spirits, 

 and he was singing softly to himself, 

 " Cheery, cheery, cheery,'' when a glit- 

 tering steely blue bird came sailing 

 noiselessly across the fields. The sun- 

 light fell full upon his bright back and 

 shining wings, and made him look like 

 a tinsel bird, instead of the cruel pigeon- 

 hawk that he really was. Usually cock- 

 robin would have seen him at once, he 

 was so bright and shining, but he was 

 approaching on the robin's blind side, 

 and the first warning of his coming that 

 cockrobin had was the swish of the 

 hawk's wings among the blossoms of the 

 apple-tree. 



