Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty 



Peter and Johnny shook their heads, and 

 Peter confessed that he wouldn't know horsehair 

 if he saw it. He often had found hair from the 

 coats of Reddy Fox and Old Man Coyote and 

 Digger the Badger and Lightfoot the Deer, but 

 hair from the coat of a horse was altogether 

 another matter. 



"It isn't hair from the coat of a horse that we 

 want," cried Chippy, as he prepared to fly after 

 Mrs, Chippy. "It is long hair from the tail or 

 mane of a horse that we must have. It makes 

 the very nicest kind of lining for a nest." 



Chippy and Mrs. Chippy were gone a long time, 

 but when they did return each was carrying a 

 long black hair. They had found what they 

 wanted, and Mrs. Chippy was in high spirits 

 because, as she took pains to explain to Peter, 

 that little nest would now soon be ready for the 

 four beautiful little blue eggs with black spots 

 on one end she meant to lay in it. 



"I just love Chippy and Mrs. Chippy," said 

 Peter, as they watched their two little feathered 

 friends putting the finishing touches to the little 

 nest far out on a branch of one of the apple- 

 trees. 



"Everybody does," replied Johnny. "Every- 

 body loves them as much as they hate Bully and 

 his wife. Did you know that they are sometimes 

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