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Chapter 3 Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows.

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a house that nothing but some very great danger could have kept him away from there. Truth to tell, Peter was afraid that not being able to have their old house, Jenny and Mr. Wren woul

t about to ask after her when he caught sight of her with a tiny stick in her bill. She snapped her sharp little eyes at him, but for once her tongue was still. You see, she couldn't talk and carry that stick at the s

sharply. Mr. Wren obediently stopped singing and began to hunt

It didn't take you long to

We can't afford to sit around wa

You see he was quite used to that sort of thing. "Aren't you afrai

t doorway's too small for him to get more than his head in. And if he tries putting his head in

lieve you wo

that that stick is too big." Jenny snatched it out of Mr. Wren's mouth and dropped it on the ground, while Mr. Wren meekly went to

him they were trying to fill the whole inside of the tree. Just watching them made Peter positively tired. Mr. Wren wou

the Song Sparrow got here

wo ago over by the Laughing Brook, and although he would

ve to make as long a journey as we do, so he gets here sooner. Did you ever in your life see such a

It makes me feel sort of all glad inside just to hear him sing. I guess it makes ev

, anyway. He likes to be on or near the ground. You will never find his nest much above the ground, not more than a foot or two. Quite often it is on the ground. Of

een and heard it is Jenny Wren, while Little Friend the Song Sparrow is shy and retiring, content

for bright colors any more than we Wrens do. They show good taste. I like the little brown caps they wear, and the way their breasts and sides are streaked with brown. Th

l Jack Frost makes them. I don't know of

tethroat?" asked Jenny Wren, as she rested for a moment in t

h. I only wish he would stay here all the time. But he seems to think there is no place like the Great

demand

," replied Peter. "I guess he must too,

others," said she, "but when I have seen him down in the South he always has appeare

em apart, but I can always tell Whitethroat because he is one of the largest of the tribe and has such a lovely white throat. He really is handsome with his black and

has been along too," said Jenny. "He

and HOW he can sing. The only thing I've got against him is the color of his coat. It always reminds me of Reddy Fox, and I don't lik

nded Jenny r

he uses both feet at once," cried Peter

do you suppose my eyes are make for? I thought y

oked dis

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Contents

The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 1 Jenny Wren Arrives.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 2 The Old Orchard Bully.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 3 Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 4 Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 5 Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 6 An Old Friend In a New Home.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 7 The Watchman of the Old Orchard.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 8 Old Clothes and Old Houses.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 9 Longbill and Teeter.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 10 Redwing and Yellow Wing.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 11 Drummers and Carpenters.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 12 Some Unlikely Relatives.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 13 More of the Blackbird Family.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 14 Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 15 A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 16 A Robber in the Old Orchard.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 17 More Robbers.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 18 Some Homes in the Green Forest.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 19 A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 20 A Fisherman Robbed.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 21 A Fishing Party.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 22 Some Feathered Diggers.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 23 Some Big Mouths.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 24 The Warblers Arrive.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 25 Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 26 Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 27 A New Friend and an Old One.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 28 Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 29 The Constant Singers.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 30 Jenny Wren's Cousins.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 31 Voices of the Dusk.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 32 Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 33 A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 34 Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 35 A Butcher and a Hummer.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 36 A Stranger and a Dandy.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 37 Farewells and Welcomes.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 38 Honker and Dippy Arrive.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 39 Peter Discovers Two Old Friends.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 40 Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 41 More Friends Come With the Snow.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 42 Peter Learns Something About Spooky.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 43 Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 44 More Folks in Red.
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The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Chapter 45 Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters.
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