48 What Birds Have Done With Me 



examine their handiwork, and to their delight 

 they saw the mother bird perched on the end of 

 the length of stove-pipe, at peace with all the 

 world. This was before she spied the boys or 

 we could never have used that reference to peace. 

 In view of all their labors, they felt rather sur- 

 prised at the nature of the blessing she was call- 

 ing down upon their heads; but what boy ever 

 took anything to heart, in the way of personal 

 abuse! Soon they were laughing at her, and as 

 boys never feel real well acquainted with a thing 

 till they have given it a new name, they forthwith 

 christened her "Stove-pipe Jinny" ; and when the 

 Papa bird put in an appearance, they dubbed him 

 "Gluey Bill." How boys get names for things is 

 not easy to tell, but in the name of "Gluey Bill," 

 the reference is obvious enough. The furniture 

 at home had come from Pennsylvania, and at the 

 last end of the journey had been drawn by ox 

 team over seventy miles of corduroy road; hence 

 the glue pot, that never was known to smell like 

 a flower, was among the household gods, and 

 the Kingfisher's nest had every such odor on earth 

 beaten to a frazzle. Surely the Divine Goodness 

 must have withheld from the baby Kingfisher, 

 olfactory glands or that goodness may be ques- 

 tioned. From "Gluey Bill," the name, through 

 some natural stage of contraction, became 

 "Gooey Bill," and her name "Jinny Pipe," and 



