The Story of Scraggles 



Chapter I 



How I Came to Live in a House 



I WAS only a little baby song- 

 sparrow, and from the moment I 

 came out of my shell everybody knew 

 there was something the matter with me. 

 I don't know what it could have been, 

 for my brother and sister were well and 

 strong. Perhaps I was out of the first 

 egg that was laid, and a severe spell of 

 cold had come and partially frozen me ; 

 or a storm had shaken the bough in 

 which our nest was, so that I was partly 



