APT 
HOW HE CHANGES HIS CLOTHES 
It takes a bird weeks to put on a new suit of 
clothes. He has nothing but his feathers to 
protect him from cold and wet, and as feathers 
cannot grow out in a minute, he would be left 
naked, and suffer, if he lost them all at once. So 
he changes his dress one or two feathers at a 
time. 
Some day a feather will drop from each wing. 
If you could look, you would see that new ones 
had started out in the same place, and pushed 
the old ones off. When the new ones are pretty 
well grown another pair will fall out. 
Tf all dropped out at once, besides suffering 
with cold he would not be able to fly, and he 
could not get his living, and anybody could 
catch him. But losing only one from each side 
at a time, he always has enough to fly with. 
It is the same way with his tail feathers. He 
loses them in pairs, one from each side at the 
same time. 
