14 The Story of Scr aggies 



into the room with a saucer in his hand. 

 In the saucer was some white-looking 

 substance that he called bread and milk. 

 But I did n't know what to do with it. 

 So to let him know how hungry I was 

 I chirped more, and then opened my 

 mouth wide, and wider still, as baby 

 birds do, hoping that he would find 

 some way of getting the food into me. 

 And he did! Instead of putting it into 

 my throat with his bill he had n't one 

 as my mother did, he caught me 

 when I was n't expecting it, and taking 

 some of the white stuff in his fingers, 

 held it close to me. When I opened 

 my bill to cheep, he pushed it in, and 

 my ! how strange it tasted. But it was 

 good. It was sweet, and warm, and 

 nice. So I swallowed it and opened 

 my mouth for more, and he gave me 



