WHEN THEY COME IN THE SPRING 5 
He cares nothing for closets and bureaus, 
because he has only one suit of clothes at a 
time, and he washes and dries that without tak- 
ing’ it off. 
He wants no fire to keep him warm, for when 
it is too cold he spreads his wings and flies to a 
warmer place. A bird has really no need of 
a house, — excepting when he is a baby, be- 
fore his eyes are open, or his feathers have 
come, or his wings have grown. While he 1s 
blind, naked, and hungry, he must have a warm, 
snug cradle. 
So when the bird fathers and mothers come 
in the spring the first thing they do is to find 
good places and build nice cradles, for they are 
very fond of their little ones. They spend the 
spring and summer in working for them, keep- 
ing them warm, feeding them till they are 
grown up, and then teaching them to fly and to 
take care of themselves, so that when summer is 
gone they will be ready to go with the other 
birds to their winter home. 
