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' One day Uw ciuWren and Litue Bear ana Aundtk, im Crow, were playing unaer totnc maple treet near ihaiiow pool
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was tinting! "Oodely.'oodefjr, oodeljrf WeVe-tot-fouriite-Wue-eggvin-our-neft! Oodely. oodely. oodely P But the Mother
Robin wu not wasting her time in tinging. She was trying to pull a long, tough worm out of the ground! Zhegpa-ah-wia, the
Earthwerm, did not want to come out and be eaten t He held on with hit tail at long at he could, but Mother Robin tugged
1 , until the dragged him out ' Then she flew to a briar bush and began to eat him. The Robin People, because they arc "soft
billed" birds, cannot eat hard food like com. Instead, t hey live on harmful worms and grubs, and are very useful, indeed.
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Yeliow Hair admired Robin's song and asked him to tel than how he came to have such a pretty red breast Mr. Robia
flew down ajxl perched on a spray of the briarbush, while the children seated themselves on fallen log to hear his story:
"Long, long ago," began Robin, "mypeople,the O-peechee-wug.had speckled breasts Lice the other Thrushes. One day Nan.
na-boihoo was hunting the Naked Bear who was a very wkked Magician that devoured little children, and eren little birds,
but was not related in any way to the Brown or Black Bears and the Wicked One hid himself in hollow tree beside the
trail. Now. the day before. Naked Bear had robbed the nest of my Arjceatorsa'nd eaten the young ones fa that very tame tree I
Bo wnen mnna-Doxnoo came along the trail Naked Bear sprang out of his hidinr-placefyfle him unawares. BUT
"Illy Ancestor bravely came to the rescue t He screamed to Nanna-bozhoo to Jump aside, and quickly launched himself -right
in the face of the savage beast, blinding him for a moment, so that he failed to seize the Hunter. Then Nanna-boihoo
. smote and slew him with one mighty blow ox Pugunvah-gun, his Magic War-Club I Then he dipped his finger in the blood of
Naked Bear and painted RED the breast of my Ancestor, saying : 'Hereafter the O-peechee-wug, or Rebin People, than wear
'a red stain on their breasts as a sign that their Great Ancestor helped Nanna-bozhoo slay the Wicked One, Naked Bear f "
While the story was telling. Little Bear, being curious to see the eggs that Mr, Robin sang about, had taken off his moccasins,
climbed the tree and was now sniffing at the nest I Mother Robin saw him first and, chirping loudly, darted off to guard it
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Little CrowUng Bird laid down tiis bow and quiver of arrows and started to climb the tree, intending to catch bold of
Little Bear and make him come down. Now the Mother Rebin lays just FOUR bhie eggs fa her nest end. when the young '
Robins are hatched out. they are ALWAYS hungry, and they grow so fast that they fill the nest right to the brim. It keeps
, the parent birds busy hunting Wormt and grubs to fillhe four gaping mouths of the hungry brood. - '
But Little Bear thought the old Robins would not miss it if he Tiooked" Just ONE eggl So rjfetod ct w and
hld it in his paw so that Yellow Hair could see it. Then he popped itinhis mouth to keep it from breaking as he sUd down
the tree-trunk. Just then SOMETJilNO HAPPEHEIIW '
Mr. Robin, too, soon joined his mate, and, between them, they filled the air with their cries I When Growling Bird and
Yellow Hair aaw what Little Bear was about they were surprised and grieved. , They ran to the tree, and Growling Bird fitted
an arrow to his bow, calling out to Little Bear that he would shoot if he did not come down at ONCE! Aundak took no part
in this bad action: in fact he warned Little Bear that there wc be trouble if he meddled with the nest But Mukoona. the
stubborn Little Bear, gave no heed : he wanted to handle the pretty blue eggs, and SMELL theml
Yellow Hair cried, "SHAME!" but at the same time, she begged Growling Bird not to snoot because the arrow
might make him hop and fan off the limb and, maybe, break his neck. So
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The small branch on which Little Bear was standing SNAPPED suddenly and down he tumbled SPLASH into the
pool of water below! Yellow Hair waa afraid he would drown but then she didn't know that ALL the Bear Peoplecan swim ,
;ndfloat like Ducks! But the water was cdd. and Uttk Bear got a grtat fright end good cold sousfa '
' And ever since then (you may read ft fa any of the story-books, if you like), whenever Little Bears, or little boys, ,
climb trees to rob a bird's nest the branch nearly always breaks! And if there should be no pool of water to tall into, beneath, ,
it often happens that there are broken LIMB3, as well as broken branches! NEXT WEEK you shall see bow Growling Bird '
punished the naughty Little Bear for robbing the nest of O-pccch-ee, the Robin! ' - A.T.C :
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