My First Week In-doors 1 3 



near by I used to get very excited, and 

 stretch my legs and neck so hard to see 

 them and get to them, that the " man of 

 the house" would laugh very heartily 

 at me. And then he would call to 

 " Mamma " and " Edith," and together 

 they would stand and look and laugh at 

 me, while I stretched and chirped and 

 twittered to the birds outside. 



Of course, I had not been in the house 

 long before I was a very hungry little 

 bird. I don't think you know how very 

 hungry so tiny a bird can get. I was 

 desperately hungry. How I was going 

 to be fed I did not know. But I 

 chirped, and cheeped, and called out as 

 loudly as I could, and soon the " Fessor " 

 as the women called the man l came 



1 This was the name given me by a dear little child 

 trying to say Professor, and the name has stuck ever 



since. 



