The Warblers Arrive 



are going to make your home somewhere near here 

 where I can see you every day." 



"Hello, Peter ! I am just as glad to see you as 

 you are to see me," cried Sunshine the Yellow 

 Warbler. "Yes, indeed, we certainly intend to 

 stay here if we can find just the right place for 

 our nest. It is lovely to be back here again. 

 We've journeyed so far that we don't want to 

 go a bit farther if we can help it. Have you 

 seen Sally Sly the Cowbird around here this 

 spring?" 



Peter nodded. "Yes," said he, "I have." 



"I'm sorry to hear it," declared Sunshine. 

 "She made us a lot of trouble last year. But we 

 fooled her." 



"How did you fool her?" asked Peter. 



Sunshine paused to pick a tiny worm from a leaf. 

 "Well," said he, "she found our nest just after we 

 had finished it and before Mrs. Sunshine had had 

 a chance to lay an egg. Of course you know what 

 she did." 



"I can guess," replied Peter. "She laid one 

 of her own eggs in your nest." 



Sunshine stopped to pick two or three more 

 worms from the leaves. "Yes," said he. "She 

 did just that, the lazy good-for-nothing creature ! 

 But it didn't do her a bit of good, not a bit. 

 That egg never hatched. We fooled her and that's 

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