surprise of both, a very healthy-looking robin 
was standing on the window-sill. It had come 
in where the window was lowered at the top, 
and the noise that 
so alarmed Billy had 
been made by its 
efforts to get out. 
It was not a very 
old bird, as they 
could tell by the faint 
spots on its breast, 
. . a@ very healthy-looking robin ve ee 
was standing on the window-sill. had been hatched 
that same summer. They could not guess why 
it had come into the room, but I suspect 
something had disturbed it at its roost. Maybe 
a screech owl tried to catch it, and so frightened 
the poor bird that it hardly knew where it was 
going. 
Billy’s father started to open the window to 
let it escape, but Billy begged to see it a minute 
first. So the father took it gently in his hands. 
It so happened that this bird had a very unusual 
foot, or I should say, the rear toe on its left 
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