A FOSTER BABY 
Joyous as morning 
Thou art laughing and scorning. 
W ORDSWORTH. 
A MOST bewitching bird is the fluffy 
little chickadee of kindergarten fame, 
so jolly, so debonair, so confiding withal. 
Watch him, hanging head downward from 
the tip of a twig so slender that it bends 
with his weight. With a comical air of busi- 
ness he hunts under each leaf, yet is instantly 
alert to your approach. Now he has spied 
you, and greets you with a title to which you 
may never have aspired. “A dee dee! a 
dee dee!” he cries in mockery, until you 
laugh too, it is all so absurd. If you are 
patient he will come nearer and enter into 
quite a chat with you, provided you can reply 
in his own language. 
It had long been the desire of my heart to 
find a chickadee’s nest ; so when, on the tenth 
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