GRAY LADY AT SCHOOL OT 
for perching crosswise on small branches, the seed-eating 
songsters, such as Sparrows, have similar feet, but short, 
stout, cone-shaped bills for cracking seeds and small nuts. 
“By this you can see that in spite of the fact that all 
birds wear feathers, and have wings, a tail, beak, and a 
pair of legs, they may still be very different from each other. 
“A Turkey Gobbler doesn’t look much like a Robin, nor 
a Goose like a Swallow, yet they are all four birds! They 
all four bring forth their young from eggs; but the little 
Turkeys and Goslings are covered with feathers when they 
peep out of the shell and are able to walk, while the young 
Robins and Swallows are at first blind, naked, and help- 
less; so here again you can see that there is something 
special to be learned about every bird that flies or swims.” 
“Chickadee-dee-dee! Can’t you tell them something 
about me?” said this dear little bird, flitting about one 
of the open windows and clinging upside down to the blind 
slats that were bare of paint, like either a Woodpecker, 
or, as Tommy Todd remarked, ‘“‘the man in the circus.” 
“The little bird peeping in the window and calling his 
name reminds me of a pretty poem about him,” said Gray 
Lady. “TI will repeat it to you and write it on the board 
so that you can copy it in your books, and then some of 
you may like to learn it to surprise Miss Wilde on an- 
other rainy Friday.” 
A LITTLE MINISTER 
I know a little minister who has a big degree; 
Just like a long-tailed kite he flies his D.D.D.D.D. 
His pulpit is old-fashioned, though made out of growing pine; 
His great-grandfather preached in it, in days of Auld lang syne. 
