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gives us warning. He has saved the lives of a 

 good many of us feathered folks in this way. If 

 it wasn't for this habit of stealing our eggs I 

 wouldn't have a word to say against him, but at 

 that, he isn't as bad as Blacky the Crow. They 

 say Blacky does some good by destroying white 

 grubs and some other harmful pests but he's a 

 regular cannibal, for he is just as fond of young 

 birds as he is of eggs, and the harm he does in 

 this way is more than the good he does in other 

 ways. He's bold, black, and bad, if you ask 

 me." 



Remembering her household duties, Jenny Wren 

 disappeared inside her house in her usual abrupt 

 fashion. Peter hung around for a while but 

 finding no one who would take the time to talk to 

 him he suddenly decided to go over to the Green 

 Forest to look for some of his friends there. He 

 had gone but a little way in the Green Forest 

 when he caught a glimpse of a blue form stealing 

 away through the trees. He knew it in an in- 

 stant, for there is no one with such a coat but 

 Sammy Jay. Peter glanced up in the tree from 

 which Sammy had flown and there he saw a nest 

 in a crotch halfway up. "I wonder," thought 

 Peter, "if Sammy was stealing eggs there, or if 

 that is his own nest." Then he started after 

 Sammy as fast as he could go, lipperty-lipperty- 

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