When he is very thirsty he does, now and then, take a sip of the fruit he has helped to save, and once in a while he may eat a few green peas.

But would any one refuse a mess of peas to a neighbor in the next house?
Then why should you begrudge a few to neighbor B.Oriole?
He doubtless paid you for them before he took them, or will do so before long.
"B.

Oriole comes, north before his mate to be, and spends a few days in fretting until she arrives.

Then he sings a gladsome song, to tell her of his pleasure, and she answers, I am sorry to say, in rather a complaining tone; but the match is soon made.

Though they are not the sweetest-tempered birds possible, they are as quick to aid as to quarrel with their neighbors.
"Their bright colors seem rather out of place in the family which contains also our sombre Blackbirds, but before the leaves have fallen both kinds of Orioles and their families start for Mexico and Central America, where such tropical hues seem more in keeping, and where many members of the family are quite as brilliant as those we see here." "There goes another Oriole!" cried Nat.