SOME FUNNY FELLOWS. 



There is a bird that knows 

 how to sew so well that it is 

 called the tailor-bird. Look at 

 this queer nest, which is hidden 

 in the leaves all sewed together. 



Perhaps you wonder where 

 it gets its thread. Even that 

 it makes from the fine cotton 

 on the back of the cotton-plant, 

 which it spins into a thread 

 with its delicate bill and little 

 feet. When it is all ready to 

 sew, it makes holes through 

 the leaves with its small bill, 

 and then sews them nicely 

 together. 



Some birds, like the wood- 

 pecker, use their bills to drill 

 holes in the trees, to get at 

 Avorms and insects, which they 

 eat. You can hear the sound 

 of this little instrument a good 

 ways off. It is like mam' 

 knocks, one after the other. 



I will tell you of one other, 

 and this is a strange-looking 

 bird. It really has no wings, 

 but such a long bill, which it 

 uses, like all the others, for 

 gathering its food, — insects and 

 worms. But it has a stranger 

 use than that, for it makes a 

 cane of it. It puts the tip, which 

 is pointed, on the ground, and 

 rests upon it, just as an old 



