CHAPTER IX 



A SILVER-TONGUED FAMILY 



THE BLUEBIIID 



"It will be difficult for yoii to mis 

 take this little blue-coat for any 

 other bird. He is ' true blue/ 

 which is as rare a color amono- 

 birds as it is among flowers 

 He is the banner-bearer 

 of Birdland also, and 

 loyally floats the 

 tricolor from 

 our trees and 

 telegraph 

 wires; for, be- 

 sides being blue, 

 is he not also 

 red and white ? 



" To be sure, his 

 breast is perhaps more 

 brown than red, but 

 when the spring sun 

 shines on his new 

 feathers, as he flits to and fro, it is quite bright enough 

 to be called red. All sorts and conditions of people 



Bluebird. 



