"Mammy Bun said it was a Blue Canary, but Nat said it couldn't be, and I forgot to ask about it." "Are you going to tell us about many more birds in the Finch family, Uncle Roy ?" "Not now.

You have heard about those that will be most likely to attract your attention, and when you can name them, they will introduce you to all the rest of their relations." [Illustration: INDIGO BIRD.] "It is a great family," said Rap, who was sitting thinking.

"Big birds and little, plain gray and brown, or red, blue, and yellow--some like warm weather and some want it cold." "Speaking of cold, I wonder what became of the ice that Dodo saw Mammy Bun cracking this morning ?" asked the Doctor, looking at Olive.

"The very word has a pleasant sound, for it seems to me to be growing warmer and warmer." "Toot! toot! t-o-o-t!" squeaked a tin horn across the field from the direction of the farmhouse.
"What's that ?" said Nat, jumping up; "it's the dinner horn, and it can't be dinner-time." "Not more than eleven o'clock," said Rap, looking at the sun after the fashion of those who spend much time out of doors.
"I know what the horn means," said Olive.

"It means that the cake, that Nat said Mammy Bun was going to bake with the ice, is done!" "But that was only nonsense, you know," said Nat.