50 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. 



young robins almost as well as fresh eggs, and in 

 his walks about the woods he listens. Chipmunk 

 gets very hungry, almost as hungry as a boy 

 when school is out, and who can blame him for 

 eating the first thing he comes across? 



But chipmunk takes not all the robins, any 

 more than robin takes all the angleworms and 

 grasshoppers and garden fruits. Enough young 

 robins are left in the nests for another year; and 

 late in the fall and winter the old robins and the 

 old chipmunks may be seen talking over their 

 troubles while they sun themselves on a forest 

 log. 



We place food all about our grounds for the 

 robins. They like bread and butter, and cake 

 and pie. Water sweetened with molasses is their 

 delight, when once they have found it out. 



Birds are like other sensible people, they do 

 not jump at conclusions. If you put out a dish 

 of food for them which they have never seen be- 

 fore, they pass it by with a glance, or sample it 

 with great care. They want to be quite sure it is 

 good eating. And the birds watch one another 

 at table! If a robin sees a sparrow or a mocker 

 eating a new sort of food, it takes right hold itself, 

 as if it had been used to such a dish all its life. 



It seems as though the same robins come back 



