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think of. We must trust to the good sense of 
our friends ; and if they believe our enemy, 
why, we have the consciousness of our own 
innocence to comfort ourselves with.” 
So the Brown Thrushes went to work, and 
before the time of the trial, they had finished 
the rearing of their own young and the Robin. 
And if they had not been required to produce 
the latter at court, they would have turned 
the whole five adrift, to provide for them- 
selves. 
Blue Jay, during this time, had been busy 
in mischief-making. But most of the neigh- 
bors, knowing his character, paid little atten- 
tion to his stories, but waited the trial for 
developments that would, in all probability, 
establish the innocence of the accused. 
Some uncharitable ones, of course, turned 
the cold shoulder to them, but they were 
few, and of rather questionable character 
themselves, such as the Cherry Birds and Cow 
Buntings. 
