

Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy 



and the trumpeting of the Geese were to be 

 their guides, and they were to sing as they flew 

 in the darkness, to keep from being scattered. 



The noisy, rollicking Chickadees were noisier 

 than ever as the preparations went on,, and 

 made sport of their relatives, who were now 

 gathered in great numbers in the woods along 

 the river ; and at length, when the proper time 

 of the moon came, the cousins arose in a body 

 and flew away in the gloom. The Chickadees 

 said that the cousins all were crazy, made some 

 good jokes about the Gulf of Mexico, and then 

 dashed away in a game of tag through the 

 woods, which, by the by, seemed rather deserted 

 now, while the weather, too, was certainly turn- 

 ing remarkably cool. 



At length the frost and snow really did come, 

 and the Chickadees were in a woful case. 

 Indeed, they were frightened out of their wits, 

 and dashed hither and thither, seeking in vain 

 for some one to set them aright on the way to 

 the south. They flew wildly about the woods, 

 till they were truly crazy. I suppose there was 

 not a Squirrel-hole or a hollow log in the neigh- 

 borhood that some Chickadee did not enter to 



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