Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed 



head, beautiful russet breast, black and white 

 throat and yellow bill, not to mention the proud 

 way in which he carries himself, certainly is a 

 handsome fellow, and Mrs. Robin is only a little 

 less handsome. How they can be content to 

 build the kind of a home they do is more than I 

 can understand. People think that Mr. Wren 

 and I use a lot of trash in our nest. Perhaps we 

 do, but I can tell you one thing, and that is it is 

 clean trash. It is just sticks and clean straws, 

 and before I lay my eggs I see to it that my nest 

 is lined with feathers. More than this, there isn't 

 any cleaner housekeeper than I am, if I do say it. 



"Welcome Robin is a fine looker and a fine 

 singer, and everybody loves him. But when it 

 comes to housekeeping, he and Mrs. Robin are 

 just plain dirty. They make the foundation of 

 their nest of mud, plain, common, ordinary 

 mud. They cover this with dead grass, and some- 

 times there is mighty little of this over the inside 

 walls of mud. I know because I've seen the in- 

 side of their nest often. Anybody with any eyes 

 at all can find their nest. More than once I've 

 known them to have their nest washed away in a 

 heavy rain, or have it blown down in a high wind. 

 Nothing like that ever happens to Winsome 

 Bluebird or to me." 



Jenny disappeared inside her house, and Peter 

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