Jenny Has a Good Word for Borne Sparrows 



more than we Wrens do. They show good taste. 

 I like the little brown caps they wear, and the 

 way their breasts and sides are streaked with 

 brown. Then, too, they are such useful folks. 

 It is a pity that that nuisance of a Bully doesn't 

 learn something from them. I suppose they stay 

 rather later than we do in the fall." 



"Yes," replied Peter. "They don't go until 

 Jack Frost makes them. I don't know of any 

 one that we miss more than we do them." 



"Speaking of the Sparrow family, did you see 

 anything of Whitethroat ? " asked Jenny Wren, 

 as she rested for a moment in the doorway of her 

 new house and looked down at Peter Rabbit. 



Peter's face brightened. "I should say I did ! " 

 he exclaimed. "He stopped for a few days on 

 his way north. I only wish he would stay here 

 all the time. But he seems to think there is no 

 place like the Great Woods of the North. I could 

 listen all day to his song. Do you know what 

 he always seems to be saying ? " 



"What?" demanded Jenny. 



"I live happ-i-ly, happ-i-ly, happ-i-ly," replied 

 Peter. "I guess he must too, because he makes 

 other people so happy." 



Jenny nodded in her usual emphatic way. "I 



don't know him as well as I do some of the others," 



said she, "but when I have seen him down in 



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