The Rook 



The Rook is a busy, chattering, cheerful soul, who 

 loves plenty of noise and bustle, and is never content 

 with his own company. In order to have his friends 

 and relations around him, he builds his nest in a kind 

 of bird-village, or rookery as it is called, high up in 

 a clump of tall trees. The rookery is governed by 

 strict laws, and one of the strictest is that strangers 

 are not admitted on any account. If any rash 

 new-comer ventures to begin nest-building, the old 

 inhabitants set upon him with beak and claw, drive 

 him out of the rookery, and tear his house to pieces. 



