he flew up to a limb, 
thinking perhaps that 
oe es = he had found some new 
Yig kind of nut that might 
| be worth opening. 
When the artist came 
back and found his 
= 
== ny 
vane ie tubes of paint gone he 
ETE gettin be was mystified. But he 
gilt ei ry and tried to heard a great pecking 
and pounding going on 
and, looking up, saw a jay standing on a limb 
digging a hole into one of the tubes. Just then 
the tube came open and Robin Hood took out 
a billful of paint. It must have taken all day 
to get the dreadful taste out of his mouth. The 
artist went back to town and spread the word 
still farther that Robin Hood was a thief and 
a nuisance. 
Ill 
But a worse experience was in store for our 
beautiful blue and white friend, who lived near 
the shore of Lake Champlain, and who was be- 
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