The First Baby Cuckoo 
up littke worms and grubs and seeds, 
and were in fact too much occupied to do 
more than say good-morning. 
Mrs. Stock-dove had only twobabies, it 
is true; but they couldn’t run about and 
help themselves like the little peewits, 
and were quite helpless and very, very 
ugly and uninteresting. Poor Mrs. 
Stock-dove looked worried out of her 
life, and confided her troubles to Mrs. 
Cuckoo. It seemed her babies couldn't 
pick at all; she actually had to eat the 
food herself and feed them out of her 
own mouth, and was getting quite worn 
out with hard work and anxiety—and in 
fact sat down and had a good cry and 
felt ever so much better for it. 
That evening Mrs. Cuckoo looked 
more serious than usual, and was rather 
cross. She quite bullied her husband 
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