did not want to hurt 
Billy’s feelings, he said 
never a word about 
poor Martha and _ her 
ie Timed “ege. yo Ateihits 
ty the boy chased off to 
look for the blue-jay, 
. @ brilliant blue-j vay leaped gnd his father sitting 
into the air. 
in the car had a chance 
to talk a little before he drove on to make 
a call on a sick man a few miles down the 
road. 
A day with Grandpa and Guna always 
meant lots of fun for Billy, especially at this 
time of year when all the snow was gone, and 
the birds had returned from the South. To him 
the farm was a very large place. There was a 
fine apple orchard, and there were meadows and 
grain-fields and the grandest woods in the glen 
where the steep hillsides sloped down to the 
stream with its many ferns. Yes, and there was 
a sheep pasture, too, with a whole flock of sheep 
init. You could always find them either in the 
open, or feeding among the rocks and cedar trees 
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