CHAPTER: 1X. 
Hermit Humming-Birds and Two Other Ones 
I TOLD you that as soon as the sun’s light fell upon 
the earth all the sunbeams that had been asleep there 
woke up, and were changed into Humming-birds. 
But there was just one sunbeam who had gone to 
sleep in a cave, and when fe woke up it was quite 
dark, and so fe was changed into a Humming-bird 
without any colours, and when his brother Humming- 
birds saw him they laughed at him, and called him a 
hermit. It was very wrong of them to do so, for it 
was not his fault that he was brown. There is 
nothing wrong in going to sleep in a cave, and, of 
course, he could not tell what would happen. But 
they thought he looked ridiculous, coming out of it 
all brown, like a hermit. I don’t think that made 
him ridiculous, really, but, even if it did, they should 
not have laughed at him. We should not laugh at 
people because they are ridiculous. It makes them 
unhappy, and, besides, we may be sure that in some 
way or other we are just as ridiculous as they are, 
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