The First Baby Cuckoo 
children’s children have gone on doing 
this year after year until the present day. 
And they haven’t changed a bit, but are 
just as vain and as greedy and as lazy 
as their parents. They have not even 
learnt to say anything but ‘cuckoo,’ and 
by the time that the young cuckoos are 
being fed by their foster-mothers you 
may still hear the hoarse, chuckling 
laugh of their parents when they think 
what a joke it is, and how clever they 
are in getting other people to have all 
the labour and bother of looking after 
and bringing up their children, 
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