A MISTAKE
.■•-.. (Original.) ... Mrs. .Sparrow.: camo flying back in such a liuTry that she dropped'the fai, juicy: worms' sho had been, carrying. in her mouth. ' "Why, whatever is the matter?" sho asked her three children, Pip, Pep, and Peep. "Oh mother!" they chirped, "our nestis on fire."- , Their mother flew anxiously round the nest, but she did not see it on fire. Then at last, to the Telief of her children, sKe..\saia v /'!:OJi', .you- silly, childrenj our nest is. not on. fire. It is only the firo in the" humans* fro'llsc, to keep the.m warm. 33. ..- . . ■ The wind had changed, and had blown the smoke'up into the nest. That was what made tho birds.think their nest was on fire. ... "COPPEETOP" (10); City. ; ..- . ■ ■ , '-. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 20
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123A MISTAKE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 20
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