"
"Indeed I can," said the pussy, "and I will, and I'll throw out the
cowbird's eggs for you, so those bad birds won't bother your little
birds."
So Uncle Wiggily gave the pussy a boost up the bush, in which the robin's
nest was built, and then the pussy, with her sharp claws climbed up the
rest of the distance all alone very nicely.
"Now show me which are the eggs of the cowbird?" said the kittie-cat to
the robin when the nest was reached. So the robin mamma pointed out the
eggs with her claw, and then with her foot the pussy clawed those cowbird
eggs out on the ground where they wouldn't hatch.
"Now, that will be the last of those bad birds," said the pussy as she
started to climb down to where Uncle Wiggily was waiting for her.
"Yes, indeed, and thank you very much," spoke the robin. "Now, my little
ones will have a chance to grow and live."
And just then there was a fluttering and a rustling in the bushes, and the
bad cowbird came flying past. And when she saw what had been done, and how
her eggs had been tossed out of the robin's nest where they didn't belong,
that cowbird flew at the pussy and was going to pick her eyes out.
But Uncle Wiggily took his crutch, and tickled the cowbird so that she
sneezed, and had to fly away without doing any harm.
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